Lebanon's hospitals may run out of vital medical supplies within days, says WHO

By Olivia Le PoidevinThu, April 9, 2026 at 2:11 PM UTC

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Emergency services operate at the site of an Israeli strike carried out on Wednesday, in Ain Al Mraiseh in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA, April 9 (Reuters) - Some of Lebanon's hospitals could run out of life-saving trauma medical kits ‌within days as supplies near depletion following mass casualties ‌from large-scale Israeli strikes over the past day, the World Health Organization said ​on Thursday.

The life-saving trauma kits include bandages, antibiotics and anaesthetics to treat patients who sustained war-related injuries, the WHO stated.

"Some of the trauma management supplies were in short (supply) and we may run out ‌in a few days," ⁠Dr Abdinasir Abubakar the WHO's representative in Lebanon told Reuters.

Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday ⁠after its biggest attacks of the war on its neighbour on Wednesday killed more than 250 people and more than 1,000 were ​injured, ​and threatened to torpedo Donald Trump's ​truce from the outset.

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"If ‌we have another mass casualty, like what happened yesterday, it will be a disaster," Abubakar said.

"Probably we will lose more lives just because we don't have enough supplies," he added.

Shortages of supplies of trauma kits have been driven by a surge in recent ‌casualties - the majority of whom are ​civilians - with roughly three-weeks worth of supplies ​being depleted in one ​day, Abubakar stated.

Medicines to treat patients with chronic ‌disease, such as insulin for ​diabetes patients, are ​also facing stock outs within the weeks - after supply chains were disrupted following the war in the Gulf and the ​closure of the ‌Strait of Hormuz, Abubakar said.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin in ​Geneva; additional reporting by Maya Gebeily in Beirut. editing ​by Matthias Williams, Kirsti Knolle)

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