The former vice president of the Drug Importers Association stated that the removal of preferential currency has deterred people from purchasing medicine.
Amir Hossein Moeini Zandi, a board member of the Food Supplements Syndicate and a pharmaceutical expert, mentioned that the government’s concern for maintaining preferential currency in the pharmaceutical sector is to keep drug prices low so that insurance can cover them. Because if this currency is removed, drug prices will multiply, and insurers simply do not have the necessary budget to cover this price increase.
In the current situation, where preferential currency has not yet been completely removed, due to high costs or shortages, people voluntarily reduce the amount of medicine they receive from prescriptions. Even now, we are not in a good situation. Now imagine what will happen if in the future the preferential currency for medicine is also removed.
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