Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit inaugurated on Wednesday2/8/2006 a military field hospital granted by Egypt to Lebanon in line with the directives by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help the Lebanese people in their current ordeal.

The mobile hospital, set up at the campus of the Beirut Arab University, will be operated by around 150 doctors and nurses.

The field hospital included three operating rooms for adults and another fully-equipped one for children.

Thirty-five children were admitted to the hospital on Tuesday.