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In this context, the head of the Pharmacists Union confirmed In Lebanon, Ghassan Al-Amin, this Thursday, in a radio interview, that we are in a crisis, the main cause of which is political instability and the high exchange rate of the Lebanese pound against DollarAnd I reflected on that pharmacist.
The Secretary explained that Medicine In Lebanon, it is priced in pounds and in order not to increase its price with the rise of the dollar, there is support from the Bank of Lebanon, but unfortunately the governor of the Banque du Liban previously said that the bank will lift the subsidy for drugs at the end of year.. During my meeting with him, he said that the last thing that could be removed from the subsidy is medication, indicating that a list of basic medicines that would be supported and that would guarantee the safety of medicines to citizens could be accessed, and there is a committee that studies this matter..
Al-Amin pointed out that there are drugs that have alternatives, but in our drug policy in the country we do not depend much on alternatives, focusing on the issue of drug smuggling, which in all countries of the world there is contraband, but it is not the main reason for losing some medicines from the market, but the reason is the cessation of support from El Banque du Liban, and therefore, there is no import of medicines for the high demand; Smuggling is also contributing to the crisis.
He indicated that “there are two agents for the influenza vaccine In Lebanon, one of them received a small amount of vaccine, and that is why the Ministry of Public Health was issued in the interim government Hamad hassan A generalization that this amount should be administered according to a specific mechanism for the elderly and people in Hospitals Medical personnel and others as a priority. I found out that this agent will receive a large quantity of the vaccine in 20 days ”. He stated that “the price of the vaccine is 20 thousand pounds.“.
