Joe Salloum

Salloum Warns of Threat from Expired Medicines

Expired medications piled up in pharmacies pose a significant threat to patient safety. This is what Dr. Joe Salloum, head of the Lebanese Pharmacists’ Syndicate, expressed, calling on the Ministries of Health and Environment to ensure that expired drugs are collected and destroyed outside Lebanon. He stressed that the risk they present is ...

Retired Pharmacists’ Pension Raised to $670 Monthly

The Syndicate of Pharmacists of Lebanon has announced an increase in the monthly pension for retired pharmacists to $670, marking the highest retirement payout among all professional syndicates in the country. In a statement issued Thursday, the head of the syndicate, Dr. Joe Salloum, attributed the increase to a series of internal reforms and ...