The story of a woman in Lebanon that bleeds hearts.. This is how she faces the most difficult health massacre!

Al-Hurra website published a new report under the title: “Fears of a health “massacre” in Lebanon amid successive crises,” and it stated:

The joy of Nancy Al-Duwaidi, who gave birth to twins twenty days ago, was not complete. In addition to her premature birth (in the seventh month), and her two children’s need for health care that required them to stay in a hospital in Lebanon, she was forced to incur the trouble of searching for milk packages for them following losing them from pharmacies.

Nancy resorted to social networking sites, like many mothers, in an attempt to find what they needed, whether from infant formula or medicines, following most of them were cut off from pharmacies, especially those that are still partially subsidized. per week, the price of one of them, before raising the price yesterday, Thursday, was 365 thousand pounds, which means that my husband must insure regarding one and a half million pounds per week. One pack while we run out of stock.

A few days ago, the crisis of medicines and infant formula worsened in Lebanon, as a result of the rise in the exchange rate of the dollar, which exceeded the threshold of 46 thousand pounds, which prompted the importing companies to stop delivering them to pharmacies, and those who delivered them in small quantities that are not sufficient for the market’s needs, pending the position of the Minister of Health in a government. Caretaker Firas Al-Abyadh called for a new price index, as the captains of pharmacists, drug importing companies and warehouse owners demanded in a joint statement the need for “the Ministry of Public Health to issue a weekly price index, pursuant to the relevant ministerial decisions.”

The two captains considered that “failing to take into account this very important issue will lead to the failure to secure the continuity of supplying the market with medicine, and inevitably to the failure of pharmaceutical institutions in general, and to their inability to follow up on meeting the needs of Lebanese patients,” stressing that “the issue of updating drug price tables is not only related to the process.” If these institutions continue to sell medicine at a low exchange rate, they will no longer be able to replenish their stocks, and the repetition of this process will lead to dire consequences, including the inevitable bankruptcy of pharmaceutical institutions and their cessation. Absolutely out of work.”

The cry of the captains was heard by the Minister of Health, who raised the dollar exchange rate index issued by the Ministry of Health from 41,000 pounds to 45,000 pounds, to write on citizens to bear more burdens. Before the new pricing, a large number of them were unable to secure the price of milk or medicines. How regarding with the new price hike?

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Two days ago, Nancy went to the hospital to check on her two children, and the doctor informed her that she might take her infant, who no longer needs health care, provided that her infant stays for additional days, but she has to pay 50 million pounds, which is (the ministry’s difference), she says with a gasp: “I have seen The accountant says that I do not have money, and when I secure the amount, I come to take her, and the same is the case with regard to her brother, who I do not know how much his hospital bill will be, or let them stay in the hospital until they grow up and so that they can walk and come home.

Nancy wonders: “Where do I get the millions to pay, and my husband is a butcher whose daily wages are 300,000 pounds, barely enough to pay for the milk packages they need, knowing that we also have three children and we have to secure their school fees, food and clothing, in addition to the house rent allowance of one hundred dollars and many other things.” widgets”.

The daughter of Tripoli (residents of Barja in Mount Lebanon Governorate, her husband’s hometown), expresses her dissatisfaction with the increase in the prices of infant formula and medicines, saying: “What kind of authority is this that is unable to find solutions to a crisis that has been going on for three years, and is getting deeper every day, and how will we be able to Resilience and collapse reached limits that the citizen might no longer bear, and on top of this, the Minister of Health simply raised the medicine price index, instead of officials curbing the imaginary rise in the dollar exchange rate. Rather, the minister preached to us that a weekly price will be set, which means that the worst awaits us.

Healthy “massacre”.

On the other hand, the journalist Cladis Saab spent traveling from one pharmacy to another while searching for medicines for her, her mother and her brother, and she says: “What is happening is a massacre once morest the patients. The matter is not limited to painkillers, but also affects medicines for chronic diseases such as pressure, heart and diabetes, as even their local alternative is not available.” After the partial subsidy was lifted, as it relies on imported raw materials for its manufacture, as if the imaginary prices that it reached are not enough for us to be lost once more from the market.

Cladis is waiting for one of her acquaintances to travel to Turkey to recommend him to buy the medicines she and her family need, and although there are companies that have taken advantage of the crisis to reap profits, as they take it upon themselves to secure alternatives for citizens, however, as she says, “I am afraid of knocking on their doors, as I do not know where they get the medicine from and the extent of its effectiveness, especially since they are companies They are not licensed by the Ministry of Health, and most of them import medicines from Iran and Syria.

A while ago, Cladis was forced, as she says, to buy a homemade sugar medicine, but it “caused side effects such as nausea. Its price of 500,000 pounds, or regarding $11, went to waste. After an exhausting search, I found a pharmacist who might import it from France at a price of $55.” It is remarkable, as she says, that “most of the medicines have had their prices that were previously placed on the packaging removed, which means that they were available in pharmacies and were withheld from patients pending the Ministry of Health raising the price index, and some of them are close to their expiration date, and this is another evidence of pharmacies’ reluctance to sell them.” To record more profits in the price exchange.

One of the pharmacists confirmed to Al-Hurra that unsubsidized medicines and infant formula are available, in contrast to the partially subsidized ones, and following issuing a new price index, we are waiting for the importing companies to deliver our need, hoping that the problem will not recur for the sake of patients’ health first and that pharmacies can withstand in light of The difficult situation experienced by all sectors.

Pharmaceutical companies import medicine in foreign currency, where the Ministry of Health, as explained by the head of the Drug Importers Syndicate, Karim Jabara, “determines its price, the dollar exchange rate index, and the profits of pharmacists,” adding in an interview with “Al-Hurra” website that “the problem lies in the instability of the dollar exchange rate on the black market, which is A financial problem that must be addressed for the sake of all sectors, not just the health sector.”