(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Health Ministry has denied hike-price rumors for medication, despite the de facto increase by pharmacies.
Prices of many medications have been risen in Syria to almost 6 folds like antibiotics, analgesics, and drugs of heart, high blood pressure and diabetes and many others, according to the correspondent Mohammed al-Sahili.
Moreover, prices of other medication have increased to more than 6 folds according to regime-loyal Facebook pages. For example, price of a box of hypertension drug has become SYP. 500, and each patient needs 4 boxes a month.
A regime loyalist lady from Latakia commented on the subject: “Damn of you, what are we going to do, if we had not died by your bullying or on fronts, we would die for disease and illness because you steal our medications”.
Governmental hospitals do not dispense medications to patients, although in theory they have to, moreover, many reported that hospitals direct them to pharmacies where they can get the prescribed medicine. It was noticed that the drugs of the Ministry of Health allocated to hospitals are sold in Pharmacies at doubled prices, especially in Latakia and Tartus.
Correspondent Mohammed al-Sahili confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that a patient was seen in al-Assad Hospital in Latakia, he was sent to a pharmacy in regime-loyal neighbourhood of Datoor and when he receive bought the medicine, he discovered that it was for designated to the ministry of health as donation from the Red Crescent.
Despite the high prices of medication, many of drugs are not available especially for chronic disease like kidney, high blood pressure according to the pharmacist Mohammed who confirmed to the correspondent that they buy medication from smugglers of “Shabiha”, and sometimes they request particular medication from them according to patients’ requests.
There are lots of kinds of smuggled medications in pharmacies, they are not monitored and they are smuggled by security and customs officers and they sell at too high prices considering them as exported.
Saeed, a resident in a-Ramel al-Janoubi neighbourhood in Latakia reported to al-Sahili that the many medications cannot be dispensed without a prescription by a doctor like opiate and sedatives and special kinds of cough syrup. The empty containers of these medications can be found at sea shore and parks.
Lawyer J. S who spoke to al-Sahili on condition of anonymity explained that raising prices in general and medicine in particular, then allowing sleeping tablets and sedative available without control, besides facilitate smuggling medicine by regime’s forces, is an intentional plan by the regime to push young men to join its forces. Moreover, he suspect that even the regime’s Ministry of Health employees support that plan.
People in Syria suffer of a severe economic crisis and shortage of essential materials, and high prices compared to average salaries or income, besides the high rate of unemployment, which minimises choices for people specially young men, who find no option but to join the regime’s forces.
Prices of many medications have been risen in Syria to almost 6 folds like antibiotics, analgesics, and drugs of heart, high blood pressure and diabetes and many others, according to the correspondent Mohammed al-Sahili.
Moreover, prices of other medication have increased to more than 6 folds according to regime-loyal Facebook pages. For example, price of a box of hypertension drug has become SYP. 500, and each patient needs 4 boxes a month.
A regime loyalist lady from Latakia commented on the subject: “Damn of you, what are we going to do, if we had not died by your bullying or on fronts, we would die for disease and illness because you steal our medications”.
Governmental hospitals do not dispense medications to patients, although in theory they have to, moreover, many reported that hospitals direct them to pharmacies where they can get the prescribed medicine. It was noticed that the drugs of the Ministry of Health allocated to hospitals are sold in Pharmacies at doubled prices, especially in Latakia and Tartus.
Correspondent Mohammed al-Sahili confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that a patient was seen in al-Assad Hospital in Latakia, he was sent to a pharmacy in regime-loyal neighbourhood of Datoor and when he receive bought the medicine, he discovered that it was for designated to the ministry of health as donation from the Red Crescent.
Despite the high prices of medication, many of drugs are not available especially for chronic disease like kidney, high blood pressure according to the pharmacist Mohammed who confirmed to the correspondent that they buy medication from smugglers of “Shabiha”, and sometimes they request particular medication from them according to patients’ requests.
There are lots of kinds of smuggled medications in pharmacies, they are not monitored and they are smuggled by security and customs officers and they sell at too high prices considering them as exported.
Saeed, a resident in a-Ramel al-Janoubi neighbourhood in Latakia reported to al-Sahili that the many medications cannot be dispensed without a prescription by a doctor like opiate and sedatives and special kinds of cough syrup. The empty containers of these medications can be found at sea shore and parks.
Lawyer J. S who spoke to al-Sahili on condition of anonymity explained that raising prices in general and medicine in particular, then allowing sleeping tablets and sedative available without control, besides facilitate smuggling medicine by regime’s forces, is an intentional plan by the regime to push young men to join its forces. Moreover, he suspect that even the regime’s Ministry of Health employees support that plan.
People in Syria suffer of a severe economic crisis and shortage of essential materials, and high prices compared to average salaries or income, besides the high rate of unemployment, which minimises choices for people specially young men, who find no option but to join the regime’s forces.
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