The reality of medicines in the Syrian government-controlled areas … their high price and Stock out is a real crisis

Pharmacies located in the square under the control of the Syrian government in Al Hasakah, are witnessing the entry into force of most types of medical drugs, accompanied by a rise in their prices.

The drug crisis began after the stores and warehouses for medicines stopped distributing and selling various types of drugs with the collapse of the Syrian pound, which led to high prices for some of them, such as pressure and diabetes medicines.

After traveling a long distance from Al-Shaddadi to Al-Hasakah, the 67-year-old Khalaf Al-Omar did not obtain the medicines he uses continuously as a result of losing the medicines.

” Al-Omar ” tells Aso news network that he suffers from chronic liver disease and needs medication constantly, but that high prices and lost medicines may force him to give up because he was unable to purchase them.

Parents also accuse some pharmacists of their failure to sell medicines, to be sold later at prices higher than the current.

But one of the pharmacists in Al Hasakah says that the warehouses are full of medicines, but the people’s fear of losing drugs pushes them to purchase medicines for fear they will be discontinued from the markets.

And some pharmacists return the loss of medicines from stores and warehouses to the high prices of raw materials that are used in the pharmaceutical industry and that are imported in foreign currency, according to the pharmacists.

“Adla Al-Hussein,” she has to buy drugs to treat skin diseases for her two-year-old child. She says that the drugs are available in all pharmacies, but pharmacists refrain from selling them until the demand for them increases, in order to sell them at a high price, she said.

The pharmacist, Saad Ibrahim, affirms that there is no justification for the increased demand of the people to buy medicines in large quantities, indicating that there is no fear of losing the medicines completely.

Complaints about the loss of medicines began to appear with the decline in the Syrian pound against foreign currencies.