Lebanon's healthcare system is crumbling amid an economic crisis that has led to an exodus of thousands of doctors and nurses, forced private hospitals to close some departments and put further strains on the already stretched state sector.
Pharmacists Syndicate head Joe Salloum on Thursday announced that for the first time in the history of the Syndicate, its inspection rights were expanded by the Minister of Health, to include pharmacies and all clinics, on everything related to medicine, including illegal seizures of it, provided that the direction and management of the inspection are exclusively in the hands of the head, in coordination and full partnership with the Ministry of Health.
