At a time when the official Lebanon is fighting the crisis of the smuggled and supplied drugs that are considered a national health disaster, an additional crisis has emerged in the period that the citizen suffers, which is the absence of printed and clear prices on the drug boxes in a large number of pharmacies, which prevents the citizen from knowing the cost of his medications and raises his doubts about the possibility of manipulation or exploitation in light of the record of price variations between the pharmacy between the pharmacy And another. What is the reason for the absence of pricing from the Lebanese medicine?
The Pharmacists Syndicate emphasizes Joe Salloum that “pricing medicines on an official level in Lebanon is entrusted with the Ministry of Public Health that issues updated tables at prices and publishes them through its website and not from the responsibility of pharmacies. The drug reaches the pharmacy through the agent, importer or manufacture Download the responsibility of the pharmacist, who sometimes resorted to writing the price in his handwriting on the cans, which is not his work at all, “calling in an interview with the MTV site” pharmaceutical companies and importers to print the price as it was previously happening in order to preserve the citizen’s right to know the price of his medicine, especially since the price of the exchange rate and fluctuations at prices no longer exists, and also because there is no guilt for the pharmacist on this issue, it puts the prices on The System in the pharmacy as it returns from the source and does not manipulate it, and the citizen has the right to request an invoice from the pharmacist.
In a different context, Saloum stresses that “the state is making great efforts to control forged and smuggled drugs and coordinate with us as a union,” noting that “it is also required to combat illegal and protected pharmacies from some forces and some of them” Online “, in addition to dispensaries that give false drugs to the citizen.”
Between the forged medicine and the non -pronounced medicine, confidence is lost between the patient and the state on the one hand and the citizen and the pharmacy on the other hand, and transparency declines in the drug market, but the responsibility falls in both cases on the official authorities that must bear their responsibilities by imposing prices clearly on each box of legal medicine and illegal combating more fiercely to maintain the health of the citizen and what is in his pocket!
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