The statement added, “Minister Firas Abyad clarified a few days ago the procedure that is being adopted to provide the largest possible amount of subsidized drugs. The Ministry of Public Health, in consultation with the scientific societies for oncology, sought to identify the two cheapest drugs from among the group that contains the combination.” This classification preserves the patient’s medication with the required effective formula and guaranteed quality on the one hand, and on the other hand, ensures the maximum benefit from the support funds to purchase the largest quantity of medicines.This is how the Ministry ensures access to Support for the patient, not the merchant.
The information office of the Minister of Health concluded by saying: “Despite all this, the Ministry of Public Health receives complaints about the request of a number of hospitals and cancer treatment centers for imaginary and unjustified financial differences for the costs of treating cancer patients. The Ministry regrets that the crisis in Lebanon is reflected sharply on the sick and the weak. Not only financial but primarily moral, it will not hesitate to take the maximum legal and punitive measures against hospitals, treatment centers and anyone who seeks to exploit the crisis to obtain illegal profits.