Medicine crisis in Iran due to sanctions
Head of Iran's Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, Fatemeh Hashemi, says providing patients suffering from special diseases with their needed medicine is facing problems due to sanctions. Iranian media reports indicate that medicine prices are rising and some types of medicine are rare due to the sanctions. "We are feeling the shortage mostly for cancer and MS drugs. Of course, thalassemia and dialysis patients are also facing hardships. These all are rooted in problems which have been caused by sanctions against the banking sector and difficulties transferring foreign currency," the Tabnak website quoted Hashemi as saying on Tuesday. Miss. Hashemi went on to say that, "Sanctions have targeted people. Many indications prove the claim. The most painful is the time when we see hardships for six million patients who are suffering from special diseases and their families who are grappling with the problems. In such a case, we will find out the grave impa