Health Minister: Medicines Priced Below LBP 12,000 No Longer Subsidized

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan said Friday the government would scrap subsidies on medicines costing less than 12,000 Lebanese pounds to shore up foreign currency reserves.

Hassan affirmed that the list of subsidized medicines includes medicines for chronic diseases, children’s formula milk, vaccines, as well as medicines to treat psychiatric and neurological diseases.

He added that medicines currently priced below LBP 12,000 are no longer subsidized.

According to Hassan, the lists of subsidized and non-subsidized medicines will be published today on the Ministry of Public Health’s website.