The drug shortages threaten tens of thousands of people, including cancer patients. For the next day and a half, the phone didn’t stop ringing — Lebanese from all over the world offered to send her the medication. One of Shehadeh’s patients, Wahiba Doughan, who has lung cancer, reached out to relatives in France who sent enough medicine for two sessions of chemotherapy. “I found the dose now but maybe later I will not.”In late August, dozens of cancer patients gathered outside the main U.N. offices in Beirut demanding international help. But with the Lebanese state absent, calls on social media have mobilized the country’s large diaspora, as in Mubarak’s case.
