The “Al-Nashra” correspondent in Nabatiyeh stated that “the process of selling medicines for cancer patients and incurable diseases on the black market, at fantastic prices and in dollars, has spread in the city of Nabatiyeh and its towns.”
He pointed out that “the cancer drug, which is sold for $100, was sold on the black market for a thousand dollars, which puts the lives of these patients at risk and death, and that the drug (insulin) for diabetics has been lost from all pharmacies, along with heart medications and medications for chronic and incurable diseases, as they are not delivered. Pharmaceutical companies have only one box for each pharmacy,” adding that “the hormone medications, blue pills, and children’s pandols have also been implemented, and pharmacies receive only small quantities from them that are not enough for patients’ needs and for local consumption.”
The correspondent stated, “The head of the Federation of Trade Unions and Employers in Nabatiyeh Governorate, Hussein Wahbi Mugharral, denounced the lack of interest of the Ministry of Health and the government in the health of the disease, exposing them to danger and slow death in light of the loss of medicines for patients with cancer and incurable diseases.”
Moghrebel believed that “the government has excused itself from serving the people, and the Ministry of Health does not explain the reasons that led to this matter. After selling a bundle of bread on the black market, the medicines required for these patients are being sold at fantastic prices on the black market, and the Ministry of Economy has lifted subsidies on flour, and we are facing a flour crisis.” contrived.”
Moghrebel pointed out that “the Banque du Liban does not release credits for the purchase of wheat for the coming months for a long time, and the oil cartels reap profits in exchange for unjustifiably raising gasoline prices, and shop owners price goods and merchandise at their own discretion when the dollar rises and when it declines, they do not lower those prices.”
He added, “We live in a country where there is no dignity for the poor and the tormented, and there is no respect for the minimum necessities of his life, a loaf of bread or a pill of medicine, as if we are in the law of the jungle and the citizen is screaming and moaning and the government does not hear his voice and does not care about his living and economic concerns.”