To release decrees in cabinet drawers
The head of the Pharmacists Syndicate, Joe Salloum, said in a statement, “The qualitative turnaround at the national level must be matched by immediate turnaround regarding the type and quality of the medicine, the mechanism for registering and monitoring it, as well as ensuring it for all patients.”
He believed that “this can only be achieved by releasing the implementing decrees of the National Medicines Agency, which had slept in the drawers of the Council of Ministers for 3 years, preventing the emergence of a national, independent, and transparent institution concerned with the registration of medicines, food supplements, and raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry, and their pricing and monitoring in the markets, which made Lebanese patients are a field of experiments, especially cancer and multiple sclerosis patients, not to mention turning a blind eye to all… Forms of drug smuggling, back and forth.”
