BEIRUT: Dozens of cancer patients in Lebanon staged a demonstration on Saturday in Riad Al-Solh Square near the headquarters of the prime minister to highlight the unavailability of drugs in pharmacies and hospitals. Protesters held banners saying, “We will tell God everything” and “Medicine will be available when you stop your corruption.” The patients’ protest on Saturday
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With Lebanon's economy in a tailspin and the coronavirus pandemic wreaking chaos, panic-buying has gripped pharmacies, creating shortages and a flourishing black market.
Pharmacies in crisis-hit Lebanon strike over shortages
By AFP - Jul 11,2021 - Last updated at Jul 11,2021
People walk in front of the shuttered door of a pharmacy in the Lebanese capital Beirut, during a nationwide strike of pharmacies to protest against a severe shortage of medicine, on Friday (AFP photo)
BEIRUT Pharmacies in crisis-hit Lebanon began an indefinite strike on Friday over medicine shortages as the cash-strapped state struggles to afford subsidies on key imports.
The country is facing what the World Bank has called one of the world s worst economic crises since the 1850s, and its foreign currency reserves are fast depleting.