10% of Social Security Drug Costs Allocated to Special Patients / 21 Hemat in Drug Costs in Five Months This Year

Deputy for Treatment at the Social Security Organization said drug costs reached 21 hemat in the first five months of this year. About 10% of these costs are for drugs for special and cancer patients, and some 2.5 million people are now covered by the Special and Incurable Diseases Fund.

The vice president of treatment of the Social Security Organization announced that the pharmaceutical cost of this organization has reached 21 hemats in the first five months of this year, and said: About 10% of these costs are related to drugs for special and cancer patients, and now about 2.5 million people are covered by the fund for special and incurable patients.