Flying off the Shelf: Lebanese Panic-Buying Medicine as Shortage Looms
With medicine shortages looming in cash-strapped Lebanon, Dr. Rita el-Khoury, owner of a pharmacy in Kesrouan, is grappling with a daily moral dilemma: to choose between selling her dwindling supplies of vital medicine to long-term clients, or to new customers who she fears may be stockpiling drugs ahead of shortfalls.