Medicine crisis and families’ accounts of long queues and the black market.

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-Tuesday 2026/05/19 - 16:58
News Code:24996
بحران دارو و روایت خانواده‌ها از صف‌های طولانی و بازار سیاه

Accompanying one of the patients with special diseases: my father has Parkinson’s disease, and each month, with insurance, his treatment costs around 40 to 50 million tomans.

Accompanying one of the patients with special diseases: my father has Parkinson’s disease, and each month, even with insurance, his treatment costs around 40 to 50 million tomans.

A single injectable medication costs 15 million tomans, and in the black market it can go up to 8 million tomans.

Treatment costs are skyrocketing, and some families are forced to choose between treatment and continuing life.

Drug prices in the black market are much higher than in pharmacies, creating severe financial pressure on us.

Some patients are forced to halve their medication doses or completely stop certain treatments.

Neurological drugs such as clonazepam have become scarce, and sometimes we are only given one strip of it.

The rest of the prescribed items are placed on three-month waiting lists, and it is unclear when they will be supplied.

The phenomenon of “medicine hunting” has become common among families, and one person must spend all their time searching for medicine.

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