Kindness in Action: UCLA Health’s Humanitarian Aid to Beirut

The need for assistance remains in Lebanon’s capital, so a team of volunteers gathered hundreds of pounds of medical supplies. Thousands of masks, face shields, and safety goggles. Hundreds of bottles of hand sanitizer and soap, syringes, sutures, gloves and burn dressings. Dozens of procedure gowns and tourniquet kits. Four EMT gurneys. Two AESOP robotic surgical arm units. Two arthroscopic carts. Two Site Rite mobile ultrasound machines and one diagnostic ultrasound machine. These are just some of the items found in the 13 pallets of medical supplies and personal protective equipment UCLA Health recently shipped to Beirut, Lebanon, to aid those still in need two months after a tragic explosion devastated the city. Read more about Dr. Faysal Saab and Dr. Neveen El-Farra’s volunteer efforts to assist Beirut here.