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At the conference's closing session, Dr. Taysir Al-Zaatari, head of the Health Committee in Sidon Municipality, presented a series of demands and recommendations aimed at ensuring the widest possible range of comprehensive health, medical, and hospital services for all, at high quality and fair and balanced costs.

These demands and recommendations focused on the importance of supporting the resilience of all health institutions in the city through medical equipment and supplies, developing existing departments, and establishing new ones as needed.

In the pharmaceutical sector, Dr. Al-Zaatari addressed the necessity of adopting generic drugs and locally manufactured drugs licensed by the Ministry of Health. He also stressed the importance of establishing a unified database for health institutions to ensure a transparent and accurate description of all services and their beneficiaries.

Following this, a number of interventions from attendees focused on the need for good governance, providing free medications for chronic illnesses, and comprehensive health coverage. The most prominent of these was a message from Haj Abu Ibrahim Al-Bouji, who raised the voice of fishermen and their unmet health rights.

Dr. At the end of the conference, Zaatari presented certificates of appreciation to the team of pharmacy students in Lebanon who volunteered during the conference. The final and detailed version of the recommendations and demands will be drafted after adding the recommendations of the distinguished attendees and published in the near future, with the hope of meeting again soon with other activities for the benefit of the city and its people.