2023-12-19 10:57:15
“Lebanon Debate”
Many cancer patients do not find the subsidized medicine, as the amounts allocated monthly are not sufficient for the number of patients registered with the Ministry of Health. Associations concerned with cancer patients were surprised that the subsidized medicine did not reach their patients. Will we be facing a catastrophic scenario that deprives thousands of patients of their treatments?
In this context, the head of the Lebanese Pharmacists Syndicate, Dr. Joe Salloum, hopes that “the Lebanese state will give sufficient attention to the issue of cancer patients, especially since we see day after day support for cancer medicines declining, and thus this matter exposes us to more suffering.”
Salloum said in an interview with Lebanon Debate: “We hope to find the necessary solution and provide support for cancer patients, and certainly we in the Pharmacists Syndicate will be at the side of patients, as we previously tried to support patients in more than one way and through our movements.”
He stresses that “proposals that can spare cancer patients further pain and oppression require a state to fulfill its duties and place this issue within its priority policy, and to stay away from patchwork solutions.”
Salloum believes, “Nothing bodes well, but we must not allow the worst to get worse. It is not permissible to risk the lives of cancer patients, and in the event of any negative development in the issue of cancer drugs, we will be ready to lead any action that prevents that.”
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