Lebanon: Healthcare as luxury
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.
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Liberalization of dollar exchange rate at hospitals leaves people dying in their homes in Lebanon
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
Lebanon’s Health Minister Hasan says hospitals can’t hike 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.