Lebanese Ministry of Health launches First phase of Blockchain MediTrack

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has commenced the training of its employees on the Blockchain enabled MediTrack pharmaceutical medicine platform. Minister of Public Health Firas Al Abyad launched the initiative on December 1st 2021. MediTrack in its first phase will be used to track medicine for Cancer and chronic illness patients whose treatment is costly. Twenty hospitals from across Lebanon attended the training at Rafic Harriri International Hospital.

Minister Abyad in a statement said, " The MediTrack Solution will first be utilized for medicine related to high cost treatments such as cancer and other chronic diseases. It is essential in tracing the movement of medicine and will decrease the effects of the financial crisis that Lebanon is going through because it will stop the smuggling of medicine across the border as well as stop the storage and monopolization of these medicines ensuring it gets to the patient and only the patient."

The Minister noted that this was carried with support of World Health Organization and European Union.