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The Deployment of International Emergency Medical Teams after the Beirut Harbor Explosion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2022

Olivier Hagon
Affiliation:
University Hospitals of Geneva, Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine - Community Medicine, Centre for Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Management (WHO) Collaborating Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
Lionel B. Dumont*
Affiliation:
Geneva University Hospitals Department of Acute Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rue Gabriel Perret Gentil, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Correspondence: Lionel B. Dumont Geneva University Hospitals Department of Acute Medicine Anesthesiology Rue Gabriel Perret Gentil, Geneva 1211 Switzerland E-mail: alpamayo98b@gmail.com

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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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