Head of Lebanese Doctors Syndicate in Beirut, Sharaf Abu Sharaf, called for “lifting subsidies on basic commodities such as gasoline and medicine, and directly supporting the citizen through the financial and financing card, in addition to raising pensions and linking them to the cost of living index,” explaining that “this alone stops smuggling because the state seems to have no power.” to stop it.”

Abu Sharaf stressed the need to support patients directly through their doctors, hospitals and dispensaries who know them very well, especially patients with chronic diseases, cancerous and incurable diseases, pointing out that “this may cause the results of what these patients are currently suffering from in the absence of medication, and a rise in death tolls.”