Lebanon: Medicine price complaints hotline goes live, yet more action needed to address crisis

By Amnesty International

Responding to the launch of the Health Ministry’s new hotline today for people in Lebanon to report pharmacies unlawfully selling medicines at prices higher than those set by the government, Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “People in Lebanon have been suffering for years as short-sighted government […] The post Lebanon: Medicine price complaints hotline goes live, yet more action needed to address crisis appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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