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The price surge is expected, given that Iran’s economy is under siege, but it’s interesting that Covid is an issue this early in the season. Have they been vaccinating? [Rudaw] Medicine prices in Iran have risen since the country’s war with the United States began earlier this year, while insurance companies have struggled to cover the increased costs, leaving patients to shoulder sharply higher medical expenses amid a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, according to Iranian state media.
“We are facing a serious and critical shortage of medicine. On the other hand, due to problems in securing imported raw materials, we are also witnessing an increase in medicine prices,” Salman Eshaqi, spokesperson for the Iranian Parliament's health and treatment commission, told semi-official Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
Eshaqi criticized the “judiciary's silence in the face of excessive price increases and the grounds for corruption in the pharmaceutical market,” warning that “if we do not have an operational plan to neutralize sanctions and manage the effects of war on health, we will face irreparable damage in the future."
Despite medicine shortages, the country is also facing a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Ghobad Moradi, head of the Infectious Disease Management Center, told the state-run Tasnim news agency that the country has faced an increase of COVID-19 cases over the past three weeks.
"In the week ending last Sunday, approximately 8.3% of individuals who visited health centers as outpatients or were hospitalized with respiratory symptoms tested positive for COVID-19," Moradi said.
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