Providing original medicines, especially chemotherapy drugs, which need two or three months to be manufactured and supplied by manufacturers
– We appreciate and encourage the support of benefactors to the Institute, but this support does not replace the state, given that oncology patients’ medicines require large sums of money amounting to millions.
– The Ministry of Health allocated one and a quarter billion dinars to purchase oncology drugs and medicines for dialysis patients, and referred this to the Central Bank of Libya, which refused to exchange, and argued that the approval of the House of Representatives is necessary.
Families of oncology patients who appeared in pictures on social media while lying on the ground in front of the institute or sleeping in their cars is not new. Rather, it has been going on since the previous regime, and the reason is that the patients’ families are people with low incomes, and they do not have money to treat their patients and provide medicines, let alone providing them. Housing for rent.
-The number of oncology patients in the whole of Libya ranges between 25-26 thousand patients, and this number includes old and young patients, and it is unfortunate that the state has been unable to treat them, and the rate of cancer in Libya is equal to that in the two neighbors Tunisia and Egypt.
– We have dozens of reasons to close the institute, such as a severe shortage of medicines and a lack of auxiliary medical elements, but we will not close its doors, and we will work for the last breath, because the religious, moral and national imperative is what necessitated us to work for the last breath, without thinking about closing
– The institute used to provide its services to the central and southern region only, but now it receives patients from all cities and regions of Libya without exception, and it is our duty to serve them and not be a blessing to them due to the exceptional circumstances of the country.
In the coming weeks, we will open the Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, equipped by the Ministry of Health, which will be the first in Libya. It is concerned with the treatment of many tumors, including tumors of the thyroid gland, prostate, lungs, and pituitary gland.