A father's plight heard over 47 seconds symbolizes the Lebanese people's reality of living through a debilitating electricity crisis for 47 years that has crippled the healthcare system.

It's written for and the voice is recorded in one straight take, live, in a hospital environment.

The daughter - heard breathing faintly - is a symbol for Lebanon. Her condition deteriorates exponentially, with every electricity cut.

The father - a symbol for Lebanese people - screams and pleads for help, with every electricity cut, but no one responds. No one’s coming to Lebanon’s aid in the electricity crisis.

The soundscape sets up a hospital environment.

Underlying bass synth creates an ominous undertone.

Sirens, specially constructed, creates a foreboding of threat and panic.

Nerve-pinching shrieks of the father puncture the environment with pain.

Sounds of mayhem amplify the progressive disarray of life.

The father’s cries for help escalate, as the situation descends.

47 Seconds - Transcript and Time-code

00:08 to 00:09 - "No. No. No. No."

00:10 to 00:11 - "Nurse! Nurse!"

00:11 to 00:13 - "Lara, my life, can you hear me?"

00:14 to 00:15 - "Lara? My baby Lara?"

00:15 to 00:18 - "Anyone?! Nurse? Where are you?!"

00:19 to 00:21 - "Lara, my baby, stay with me."

00:21 to 00:23 - "Lara, please, please don’t go."

00:23 to 00:26 - "Anyone?! Please hurry. Can you hear me?!"

00:26 to 00:29 - "Lara? Can you hear me? Please stay my child."

00:29 to 00:33 - "Lara? Lara, please don’t leave me."

00:33 to 00:34 - "For God’s sake, where are you?!"

00:35 to 00:38 - "Lara, don’t go. Please. Don’t go."

00:38 to 00:41 - "You are killing my daughter. You are killing my child."

00:42 to 00:46 - "Lara, my heart, please come back. Please, please don’t leave."

The helpless felt in these 47 seconds is what Lebanon has felt for 47 years, with power cuts every day.

To change the electricity reform plans, support LOGI Energy’s initiative at therighttopower.com.

Lebanon's healthcare sector has suffered with 47 years of electricity cuts, culminating in a breaking point in 2022's healthcare crisis.

With its crippling energy crisis escalating in 2022, hospitals and essential health services were put under immense pressure, debilitated by lack of electricity.

With 22 hours of power cuts every day, patients, including children, were dying and suffering in Lebanese hospitals whose life-support machines and emergency treatment systems cannot rely on intermittent and sporadic power.

LOGI Energy wanted to challenge the Government to bring in reforms and transparency regarding electricity restoration plans.

We had to turn ears, drive action for a petition demanding a change in the electricity reform plans.

And we needed to do so by reminding people in Lebanon to again feel the helplessness that every single Lebanese have felt for 47 years, by transporting them, through sound, next to a father losing his daughter, over 47 seconds.

Endorsements supported LOGI Energy's petition to draw reforms reaching 100,000 signatories in 3 weeks' time.

Lebanon's healthcare sector was suffering from the electricity crisis.

Grappling with a crippling energy crisis was putting hospitals and essential services under immense pressure.

An outdated energy infrastructure and an over-reliance on private operators and fuel imports has impacted the people of Lebanon for the past 47 years with power cuts a daily reality.

Hospitals, with life-supporting and sustaining machines, cannot rely on intermittent power.

Patients lives have been at risk.

Dr. Anwar Shayya, an Oncologist, says, "People are literally dying everyday in hospitals in Lebanon, from avoidable matters."

Lebanese hospitals and patients deserved the right to power.

The right to power was their fundamental human right.

But that right was taken away from them because of the 47-year-long electricity and energy crisis.

This daylight robbery had crippled them.

This right to electricity being taken away from the Lebanese, became the inspiration behind the initiative's title, "The Right to Power".