Sanctions affecting 6 million patients in Iran: report
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October 22, 2012, Monday
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SIX million patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions as import of medicine is becoming difficult, a government paper said yesterday, quoting a health official.
Sanctions imposed on Iran's banking sector "severely affected" the import of drugs and pharmaceutical devices for treatment of complex illnesses, the Iran Daily newspaper quoted Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Foundation for Special Diseases, as saying.
The sanctions have seriously complicated banking transactions, causing a hike in prices, and even "shortage" in some sectors, even though they do not specifically target the sale of medicine and medical equipment to Iran, Hashemi said.
"We feel the shortage primarily for cancer and multiple sclerosis drugs. Of course, Thalassemia and dialysis patients are also the targets of these hardships," she was quoted as saying.
"The price of domestically produced drugs has increased 15 to 20 percent during the past three months, and that of imported supplements by 20 to 80 percent," pharmacist Mohammad Hossein Hariri told the ISNA news agency.
"We risk a medicine crisis in the near future if officials do not address the production and import of medicine."
Sanctions imposed on Iran's banking sector "severely affected" the import of drugs and pharmaceutical devices for treatment of complex illnesses, the Iran Daily newspaper quoted Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Foundation for Special Diseases, as saying.
The sanctions have seriously complicated banking transactions, causing a hike in prices, and even "shortage" in some sectors, even though they do not specifically target the sale of medicine and medical equipment to Iran, Hashemi said.
"We feel the shortage primarily for cancer and multiple sclerosis drugs. Of course, Thalassemia and dialysis patients are also the targets of these hardships," she was quoted as saying.
"The price of domestically produced drugs has increased 15 to 20 percent during the past three months, and that of imported supplements by 20 to 80 percent," pharmacist Mohammad Hossein Hariri told the ISNA news agency.
"We risk a medicine crisis in the near future if officials do not address the production and import of medicine."
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