ordered domestic media to limit coverage<\/a> of the UN sanctions and portray their consequences as minimal.<\/p>\nWhile Iranian officials have sought to downplay the impact, the complaints from the public suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n
Prices triple, quality falls<\/p>\n
Some said drug prices have tripled or quadrupled while quality has declined. One consumer said the price of a five-tablet pack of antihistamines rose from 250,000 rials (about $2.16) to 1.2 million rials (about $10.37) in a month. <\/p>\n
Others described searching multiple pharmacies only to find a lone remaining box of medicine sold at inflated prices.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously, the medications we needed were available, and with approval from the Hemophilia Center and the Food and Drug Organization, we could obtain them from pharmacies. But now these drugs have become scarce, and we have to pay 20 million rials ($173) for each one,\u201d one audio message said.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s minimum wage for 2025 is 104 million rials per month, equivalent to about $94.<\/p>\n
Some messages indicated that people have had to ration medicines, skip meals, or make other sacrifices to afford treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy medicines were already expensive before the war and before sanctions, but now they are rationed. I have to skip meals because after every meal I need a pill, and I can\u2019t afford more,” A diabetic respondent said.<\/p>\n
Another respondent said he had reduced his family\u2019s food intake to pay for his wife\u2019s medication. A homemaker reported spending over 60 million rials (about $518) on gastrointestinal drugs despite not earning an income.<\/p>\n
Blame and frustration<\/p>\n
Many Iranians blamed government policies for the crisis. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe medicines were already scarce and expensive, but after the UN sanctions they became worse. Officials are not suffering; it\u2019s the middle class and workers,\u201d one respondent said.<\/p>\n
Officials in Iran routinely attribute shortages to foreign pressure, while critics and dissidents cite mismanagement and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian respondents to a bulletin requesting input on their experiences seeking medicine submitted audio, video and text messages…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":{"0":"post-64168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}