Summary
Health Minister Jamil Jabak announced Tuesday morning that pharmacies and health centers are running out of vaccines and essential medicines.
Speaking at a news conference, Jabak said that roadblocks, as well as "attacks on vehicles" carrying medical supplies from central reserves in Beirut, have led to shortages of medicine at most of the pharmacies in areas far from Beirut and at 50 of the ministry's health centers.
Around 2,000 cancer patients have been left without medicine as a result of these disruptions, according to Jabak, who described the problems facing the hospital sector as "untenable" and who warned that a "social and medical catastrophe" would follow if this problem is not resolved.
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