Lebanon's Health Sector - Medicine shortage/Economic crisis/covid impact

[Mrsrx]

Opening this thread to follow the meds shortage issues along with smuggling, hoarding and inability to import due to the shortage in USD.

Some articles:

Lebanon arrests 6 foreigners over medicine smuggling: media - Xinhua | English.news.cn

ISF Seized Large Amounts Of Medicine Being Smuggled Out The Beirut Airport

Travelers at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport were carrying suspicious amounts of medicine to smuggling them out of Lebanon.

www.the961.com

Lebanon Faces Rationing Of Medicines

In Lebanon, pharmaceutical companies have been rationing the distribution of medicinal drugs among pharmacies to make illicit profits.

www.the961.com

شحنات تصل تباعاً الى لبنان: الدواء مفقود.. لكنّه سيتأمّن!

شحنات تصل تباعاً الى لبنان: الدواء مفقود.. لكنّه سيتأمّن!

www.lebanon24.com

Moreover what are the current restrictions on incoming passengers to bring meds with them for their families?

Are some meds being stored to be sold at the non subsidized price while they were bought with the subsidies causing extra shortages?

 

[Mrsrx]

Interesting paper:

Saving the Suffering Lebanese Healthcare Sector: Immediate Relief while Planning Reforms

Lebanon’s economic downfall had a crippling effect on all healthcare sectors, and COVID-19 has further aggravated the crisis. To save an already ailing health sector, this paper written by medical professionals calls for urgent measures to tackle the immediate crisis. Its focuses on maintaining...

www.arab-reform.net

 

[Mrsrx]

Hundreds of disillusioned doctors leave Lebanon, in blow to healthcare

Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine. He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card.

www.reuters.com

 

[SoFP1]

Hundreds of disillusioned doctors leave Lebanon, in blow to healthcare

Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine. He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card.

www.reuters.com

It is true, i know it first hand. A lot of hospitals have some of their departments run by residents cause a lot fo their experienced doctors have left the country. Most Lebanese doctors were educated in France and have the French citizenship. Why would they stay in Lebanon and get paid peanuts compared to what they can get elsewhere.