More than 30,000 patients with cancer or other incurable diseases are threatened with death following today, which prompted the head of the Parliamentary Health Committee, Representative Bilal Abdullah, to hold the Banque du Liban responsible for the death of any patient.
And Representative Abdullah confirms, in an interview with the “Lebanese Debate”, that despite all the warnings, the Banque du Liban deafened the ears and went to pricing the medicine at 15 thousand, which makes the task of hospitals and importers difficult, and the repercussions for the patient are very great, so the fear today is that they will not be able to secure Medicine.
And he considered that what the bank had done was to block the way for the Minister of Health, who seeks to address the crises in this sector, and that he is far from human sense.
And ask does delay 5 million dollars in financial regularity? It is an amount to secure medicines for 30,000 patients who are doomed to die if they do not receive treatment.
He points out an important matter that the decision opened a problem with suppliers and importers, even in the matter of medicines for non-incurable diseases as well.
And Representative Abdullah regrets that they took a promise from the prime minister during their last meeting with him to deal with the situation and also to deal with the slipping of banks in dealing with hospitals.
He wonders if the health sector is targeted as a whole, and as for the steps that the committee will take, he refers to communication with the Minister of Health, and emphasis has been placed on following up on this issue with the Prime Minister with the aim of retracting it, and he said: We will not remain silent regarding the threat to the lives of thousands of citizens with incurable diseases and immune diseases, nor They can secure the drug.
