Health Minister Firas Al-Abyad affirmed that “the ministry takes the issue of losing medicines to cancer patients with a great degree of seriousness.”

He added: “In the event of any violation of the law and medical, humanitarian and moral commitment, the file will be referred to the Public Prosecution to take the appropriate action.”

Abyad concluded by saying that what the pharmaceutical file witnessed since the beginning of the financial crisis confirms the validity of what the Ministry of Public Health seeks to achieve in terms of a strategic change in how to track and control the movement of medicines through modern automated programs and systems.