The General Directorate of State Security indicated that “health symptoms affected a number of citizens in the town of Jeb Jenin in the western Bekaa, and what they shared was their purchase of medicines from the town’s pharmacy.”
And she explained in a statement, “After following up on the matter, and investigations carried out by the State Security Office in Jib Jenin with doctors in the area who had treated the sick patients, a State Security patrol raided the pharmacy, and the medicines were checked and a large amount of them were checked, and it was found that they were expired, and the pharmacy was checked.” Sell it to the people.
The directorate pointed out that “it was also found that the drugs that are valid for sale and supported by the relevant ministry are being sold at unsubsidized prices, so that the owner of the pharmacy achieves huge profits.” .
She stressed that “a state security patrol distributed subsidized, usable and confiscated medicines to the Red Cross centers in the Bekaa, and the expired medicines will later be destroyed in the presence of a representative of the Ministry of Health.”