Summary
The man speaking with Dr. Farhat is a friend of the deceased lady's nephew – a Syrian refugee living in Majdal Anjar – who also works at the hospital.
I tried to help the patient, she died, may God have mercy on her".
He argued that he takes in many Syrian refugees while most hospitals turn them away.
Mohammad, who himself is a refugee from Homs, explained that many Syrians have difficulty securing the remaining 25 percent of hospital bills which the UNHCR does not cover.
According to an Amnesty International report from 2014 on refugees' access to health care in Lebanon, 11 percent of refugees returned to Syria specifically for medical reasons last year.
The arrival of more than 1.1 million refugees into Lebanon from Syria has pushed this system to the very brink.
In March, the Association of Private Hospitals urged international donors to increase their funding of UNHCR so that more refugees could meet their payments. They estimated that securing hospitalization for 1.5 million refugees living in "squalid conditions" would cost $600 million per year and only 5 percent of that is available.
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