The “Inter-ministerial Substance Use Response Strategy for Lebanon 2016-2021” was launched by the Ministries of Public Health, Social Affairs, Education and Higher Education, Interior and Municipalities and Justice in December 2016...

Under the auspices and in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani, “The National Campaign for Early Detection of Primary Immune Deficiency” was launched at the Ministry in collaboration between the Ministry and ifight pid association at the AUBMC in Beirut...

Issuance of a New Drugs Public Price List No.18/2/2053 Date 22/1/2018

Issuance of a New Drugs Recall Resolution No.124/1 Date 19/1/2018 concerning the withdrawal of milk and feed products for children from the Lebanese markets.

Under the patronage and in the presence of Deputy Prime Minster Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani, the National Organization for Organ & Tissue Transplantation opened its center in the previous headquarters of the Lebanese order of physicians in Baabda, in the presence of the president of the Parliamentary Commission on Health Deputy Dr. Atef Majdalani, Deputy Dr. Salim Salhab, the former Minister Dr. Mohamed Jawad Khalifeh, the former deputy Nazem Khoury, the President of the Order of Physicians in Beirut professor Raymond Sayegh and members of the order council, the President of Tripoli and North Lebanon Order of Physicians Omar Ayyach, the President of the order of nurses in Lebanon Nahed Yazbeck Doumit, Director General of the Ministry of Public Health Dr. Walid Ammar and a number of stakeholders...

Issuance of 2 New Drugs Recalls Resolutions No.107/1 and No.110/1 Date 16/1/2018...

Concerned for food safety and the citizens’ safety, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani and Agricultural Minister Ghazi Zeaiter held a working meeting to discuss the agricultural pesticides dossier at the premises of the ministry in Bir Hassan. They agreed upon the following:..

On the occasion of the World Pharmacists Day and within the framework of the implementation of Law No.14/2008 aimed at protecting breastfeeding, baby and infant feeding, the Ministry of Public Health, in collaboration with the UNICEF and the International Orthodox Christian Charities held a workshop on the implementation of Law No. 47/2008 entitled “the regulation of the marketing of infant and newborn feeding products and its means”, which is the function of the Pharmacy inspection...

The Minister Memorandum No.4 of 11/01/2018 Regarding the Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding Signed with the Lebanese Customs Department

Deputy Prime Minister Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani launched the national awareness campaign on the congenital malformation of the oral cavity, i.e. cleft lip, during a ceremony held at the premises of the Ministry in the presence of the President of the Syndicate of Private Hospitals Sleiman Haroun, The Director of the Medical Care Directorate Dr. Joseph El-Helou, the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) Dr. Jamal Hoballah, Head of Global Smile Foundation Ramzi Hafez, Head of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the AUBMC Dr. Ghassan Abou Sitta, Dr. Bernard Gerbeka, GSF-MENA ambassador Ms. Clemence Ashkar and other stakeholders...

The Ministry of Public Health represented by its Director General Professor Walid Ammar and the National Certification Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication honored the Chairperson of the Committee Dr. Ghasssan Issa for the efforts he exerted for many years to support the Ministry and keep Lebanon polio-free...

Issuance of a New Drugs Recalls Resolutions No.73/1 Date 10/1/2018

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health is looking to select national surveyors ONLY FOR MEDICAL DOCTORS for hospital accreditation surveys of public and private healthcare organizations as per the following tasks:..