At least 170 people injured in the explosions in Lebanon are in critical condition, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
The majority of those injuries are in the abdomen, hand and face, particularly in the eye area, he said earlier at a news conference in Beirut.
Abiad added that many hospitals in southern Lebanon have exceeded capacity due to the sheer number of injured people arriving. More than 100 hospitals in Lebanon – largely in the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Beqaa valley – received injured people.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Lebanese ministry of Health called for health workers to urgently report to work given the “large number of injured people being transferred to hospitals” following the pager explosions. Officials have also called for people to donate blood in anticipation of increased need.
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