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the Iranian people, but also faced families of Iranians, who were suffering
from special diseases, with serious financial problems. The patients had to
pay three times more money to buy the same medicines.In addition, patients
and their families had to undertake extra costs related to transfer of foreign
exchange between two countries. Iran's Ministry of Health, Treatment and
Medical Education has announced the cost of transferring foreign exchange
for purchasing medicines during that period between 3.5 percent and 10
percent.
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This extra charge could affect customers of foreign medicines both
directly and indirectly.
B) Shortage of special medicines
After thebeginningof sanctions, thenormal cycle throughwhichmedicines arrived
in Iran and were distributed was disrupted and faced serious problems. This state
of affairs put the survival of patients with intractable and special diseases at risk.
These patients, who needed constant access to their medicines, could not have
that constant access in the aforementioned period of time. This human crisis was
so serious that the then secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon,