Restrictions on the choice of respiratory sprays; Several dozen times increase in prices

Associate Professor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences reported about the shortage of respiratory sprays and at the same time, their prices have increased several times.

Associate Professor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences reported about the shortage of respiratory sprays and at the same time, their prices have increased several times.

Alireza Kashfizadeh, on the sidelines of the 12th "National Congress of Lung Diseases, Special Care and Sleep" at the International Conference Center of Iran University of Medical Sciences, said in a conversation with Mehr reporter: "The variety of respiratory sprays is not as wide as before and we are facing restrictions on the import of this type of medicine."

With regard to the restrictions that have been created in the way of importing and supplying medicine, he added: "Unfortunately, we do not benefit from a variety of respiratory sprays in the current situation, and this has caused patients to face limitations in choosing their medicine."

Referring to the complications of respiratory sprays, Kashfizadeh said: When a patient develops a complication, we change his spray, but we must know that the complications of each respiratory spray are different.

The associate professor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, regarding the price of respiratory sprays after the increase in the price of drugs, said: Unfortunately, the prices of respiratory sprays have increased tremendously.

He continued: "The price of respiratory sprays has increased several dozen times, so that the patient used to pay 60,000 to 200,000 tomans with insurance, but now it has reached 1.5 to 5 million tomans."