Hundreds of disillusioned doctors leave Lebanon, in blow to healthcare

FILE PHOTO: People walk outside the American University of Beirut (AUB) medical centre in Beirut, Lebanon November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine. He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card.

Fourteen years later he is leaving his homeland with his wife and five children and returning to the United States to try his luck starting from scratch.