Under the title: “The crisis of drug shortage expands in Lebanon … Medicines intended for heart patients are missing from pharmacies,” a newspaper writesMiddle east“: The drug crisis has expanded in Lebanon, threatening the lives of patients, especially those suffering from heart diseases, due to the deterioration of some of them in their health after they were forced to stop taking a number of drugs intended for them because they are missing from pharmacies.
The head of the emergency department at Hariri Hospital, Dr. Nabil Shasha, warned of the consequences of losing medicines in general, especially those intended for heart patients, pointing out in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat that this month witnessed an increase in the number of reviews by 40 percent in the emergency department Of patients with heart failure and other complications, as opposed to last month. He explained that a large number of these patients used…
