Member of Parliament: Price controls on medicine have reduced quality
A member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Health and Treatment Commission criticized the state of healthcare in Iran, stating that price controls on medicine have led to a decline in the quality of medicine in Iran.
On Wednesday, Mohammad Ali Mohseni Bandpei, in an interview with Shafaqna News Agency, mentioned as an example that if previously one sheet of amoxicillin could stop a sore throat, now even six sheets cannot treat it.
This parliament member also warned about the critical situation of public hospitals in Iran, stating that these centers are in debt due to the mismatch between medical tariffs and the inflation rate, and if the tariffs for medical services do not align with inflation, these hospitals will go bankrupt.
On the 1st of July, this member of parliament also warned about medicine becoming a crisis, stating that the number of scarce medicines in Iran has exceeded 200 items.
Mr. Bandpei named the massive debt of the government to the Social Security Organization and the debt of this organization to hospitals, as well as the insufficient production of medicine in the country, as the main factors of the medicine crisis.
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