Rebecca Badawi¹, Lina El Murr² and Georges El Hachem²*

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
²Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

*Corresponding Author: Georges El Hachem, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.

Received: August 16, 2021; Published: August 27, 2021

  Lebanon, a country nicknamed by “Switzerland of the East” in the 1950’s due to its financial power and stability at the time, is witnessing its worst economic crisis in decades. This oasis of prosperity and diversification has collapsed into poverty and chaos with increasing social, financial and security challenges daily.

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Citation

Citation: Georges El Hachem., et al. “Oncology in Lebanon: From Shortage of Drugs to Shortage of Lives”. Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 5.9 (2021): 26-27.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Georges El Hachem., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.