An explicit medicine that threatens the lives of the Lebanese … and the captain of pharmacists raises the alarm

The Captain of Lebanon Pharmacists, Dr. Joe Salloum, warned of the grave dangers caused by the accumulation of expired medicines within pharmacies, stressing that their risk is no less than the danger of forged medicines.
Saloum said in a statement that the failure of some companies and factories to retrieve these drugs and destroy them outside Lebanon leads to “dumping pharmacies in large quantities of them”, at a time when the pharmacist is prohibited to get rid of them or throw them randomly because of the direct threat to the environment and public safety. He considered that this reality “turned pharmacies into time bombs that threaten the lives of patients”. The company of the companies of companies, especially those that still refrain from commitment, by applying Article 53 of the Pharmacy Profession Law, which requires the recovery of all expired drugs in order to preserve the lives of people, and work to deport it outside the country to destroy it. January 25, 2024, which stressed the need to adhere to the law after a judicial review submitted by the Pharmacists Syndicate against a previous decision of the Ministry of Health impeded the application of the “Refunders Law” for reasons he described as illogical. whether”.