No one plans to get sick or hurt, but most people need medical care at some point. However, with the correct medical treatment and care, the person can recover in no time. But things are never always so simple for many people.
Between shortages and skyrocketing prices, a trip to the pharmacy in Lebanon exposes huge inequalities, while a trip to a charity clinic for treatment has become the norm for hundreds of thousands of people.
The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) has adopted the banks’ approved dollar exchange rate, which is 3,900 Lebanese pounds, in a number of its departments instead of the official exchange rate
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hasan tried to reassure anxious Lebanese Thursday that the price of hospital fees and medicines would not increase, as the head of the Private Hospitals Syndicate warned that hospitals would soon adjust their pricing of the dollar.