Iranian drugs in Lebanon are imposed on cancer patients and doctors refuse them
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has put an Iranian drug for the treatment of a type of cancer on its list of drugs approved in Lebanon without the necessary analysis in to subject the laboratories Lebanon normally deals with.
Hospitals refused to prescribe this drug to their patients while the Ministry of Health, which is headed by Hamad Hassan, a minister “affiliated” with Hezbollah, was distributing it.
The economic hardship, coupled with the greed of some traders, has led to it die most drugs in Lebanon have been discontinued. In this context, the Ministry of Health, which has been headed by members of Hezbollah for more than two years, is accused of having cancer patients, die yourself die Cannot procure drugs with your own money, having imposed an Iranian drug.
At the Beirut Government Hospital in In the Karantina region, cancer patients complain that the only drug offered by the ministry is an Iranian drug called “Linoma”, which and does not come from the “biological alternatives” category die has passed the necessary tests.
“Linoma” is an Iranian drug that doctors confirm that the Ministry of Health in his drug list was recorded without the required testing. Hence, some doctors fought a long battle over die Revoke the Ministry’s decision and warn of the dangers of this drug.
In this context, Dr. Suzan Sarbai, General Director of the Medica RCP Center for die Collection of medical and pharmaceutical data about die Risks of this drug and how the Minister of Health Hamad Hassan recorded it by circumventing the decision of the Committee of Ministers.
Dr. In turn, Fadi Haddad, an autoimmune disease specialist, refused to prescribe this drug to his patients after it was offered to them by the Ministry of Health, as did dozens of hospitals in Lebanon whose doctors warned of the danger of the move.
Dr. Haddad also explained die medical risks of the drug and how the patient taking this drug if they suffer from adverse effects, in in no way can he return to his original medication and thus succumb to the disease.
The doctors carried their case in die Corridors of justice, die did not support her the first time, but they did not give up and resubmitted their file through a group of lawyers.
In this regard, lawyer Majd Harb said that die The file comprises 35 pages and contains 12 medical documents, die die Document administrative violations by the Ministry.
Harb regretted that die The contradicting doctors’ file 4 hours after submitting it to the prosecutor for discrimination was rejected, adding, “There is a drug that can lead to patient death … We are telling the international community that Lebanon is helpless.”
For their part, patients are afraid to openly explain their suffering to the Ministry of Health. Who to in would rather pay millions than risk his life by taking a drug prescribed by the ministry, knowing that the price of the Iranian drug is not much different from the original drug.
Those affected claim that the Ministry of Health has 25 Iranian medicines in added his lists, the files of which are not yet closed, but these are in not yet available at most pharmacies.
But in Baalbek (Eastern Lebanon), a Hezbollah stronghold, confirmed a merchant that it was possible to procure medicines in Lebanon, be it Iranian or Syrian. He stated that die Sourcing Syrian medicine is faster and faster die Obtaining Iranian medicines takes longer, especially since these medicines are smuggled through in to enter Lebanon.
Although a number of drugs are listed on the Ministry of Health’s website, it is still difficult to find them in the Lebanese market. However, the people of Baalak claim that a large number of them are getting Iranian and Syrian medicines from Hezbollah health centers.
Source: Asumetech.com