{"id":54906,"date":"2021-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=804b1e4aa7688b64947a6182e8ea8258"},"modified":"2021-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:00:00","slug":"moph-announces-measures-to-confront-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/moph-announces-measures-to-confront-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"MOPH ANNOUNCES MEASURES TO CONFRONT DRUG CRISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Ministry of Public Health announced, in a statement, measures taken to solve the drug crisis.<\/P><P><\/P><P>The statement called on all concerned parties to remove the drug issue from the media debate, in order to avoid negative repercussions on citizens who suffer from the economic crisis and its repercussions on the health sector.<\/P><P><\/P><P>The statement explained that the move towards lifting subsidies on medicines came as a result of the Central Bank&#8217;s abstention from providing support in foreign currency and stopping the payment of import bills in the months of May and June, noting that some of the bills date back to November 2020. A fact that caused a serious and dangerous drug crisis.<\/P><P><\/P><P>&#8220;The Ministry was clearly informed by the Central Bank that it will not be able to support the health sector, including medicines, supplies, infant formula, and raw materials for the national industry, with more than 50 million dollars per month, according to work priorities and allocating support for hospital medicines, vaccines, hospital incurable and cancerous life-saving, infant formula and diseases Neurological and psychiatric, as well as chronic disease drugs, as a result of the publication of the list of unsupported drugs,&#8221; the satement said.<\/P><P><\/P><P>According to the text, the Ministry of Public Health took the initiative to open the door for urgent import and rapid registration of all types of missing medicines in the local market, with the prior approval of the Ministry, and in accordance with the approved technical specifications, quality controls and standards.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: National News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Public Health announced, in a statement, measures taken to solve the drug crisis.The statement called on all concerned parties to remove the drug issue from the media debate, in order to avoid negative repercussions on citizens who suffer f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1781,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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