Health for Al-Nahar: Lebanon will reap two billion dollars a year in Iraq

The Lebanese Minister of Health, Jamil Jabbak, said after a meeting with President Michel Aoun that a "consensus had been reached on the introduction of Lebanese drugs into Iraq. In return, Iraqis would enter Lebanon. to recover under the umbrella of the ministry and protect it from the problems they face ". With this brief statement from the presidential palace, the door of the door is opened for Lebanese medicine to invade the Iraqi markets and the Iraqi patient enjoys privileges in Lebanese hospitals.

What does the resolution mean and how will Lebanon benefit from the agreement?

Health Minister Mohamed Ayyad explains the mechanism of the Iraqi-Lebanese agreement and explains how the opening of the Iraqi market to Lebanese factories could benefit the Lebanese side. The Ministry of Health believes that the Lebanon enjoys one to two billion dollars a year on a bill of 6 billion Iraqi medicines. Today, only two factories are reluctantly exporting Lebanese drugs to Iraq.

On the other hand, the Iraqi Minister of Health will visit Lebanon to sign the agreement with Lebanon in the coming weeks, with Iraqi patients enjoying privileges in Lebanese hospitals.

These privileges are summarized by the opening of an office of the Iranian Ministry of Health and an office in Lebanon, by which the Iraqi patient presents his papers, while the office sends his file to Beirut. after which he communicates with him and offers him several hospitals and several Lebanese doctors to follow his state of health. He is himself the name of the hospital and the doctor in proportion to his situation. The importance of the agreement lies in the fact that the Iraqi patient is no longer subject to blackmail brokers.The case will be under the supervision of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which is 39 will strive to provide low prices to Iraqi patients such as the Lebanese, all the more as many complaints have been filed by the Iraqi Embbady in Lebanon. Brokers and incompetent doctors.

Ayyad pointed out that a delegation of Lebanese hospitals accompanied the minister during his visit to Iraq and that positive signs of mutual benefit were mutually beneficial. These hospitals will provide facilities for Iraqi patients.