Talk:Healthcare in Iran

Intro has serious POV issues
the intro has omitted all of the factors regarding sanitation, communicable diseases, and malnutrition. the intro reads like a rosy summary put out by the head of state. this needs to be corrected by at least summarizing some of these facts from within the body of the article Phasechange 04:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Over-valuation?
How can the healthcare market be larger than the GDP of the country? Something does not tally. Anwar (talk) 09:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Lancet article on sanctions
Here's an article from The Lancet on the effects of the economic sanctions (free full text):

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960116-6/fulltext The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9863, Page 279, 26 January 2013 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60116-6 US-led economic sanctions strangle Iran's drug supply Dara Mohammadi

Reza Malekzadeh was Iran's Minister of Health from 1991 to 1993, and is currently professor of medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He explains to The Lancet that data are not yet available to quantify the exact effects of the sanctions in terms of morbidity or mortality, but that the problem is abundantly apparent to everybody in the country, especially to physicians. “The degree of suffering is huge”, he says. “We're just trying to do our best for our patients. We don't have the figures, but I can say that almost 60% of cancer patients in Iran—and we have about 50 000 cancer cases per year—are in trouble. If they can't have therapy in time and we cannot treat them, then their survival will become shortened.”

Iran produces about 90% of its own drugs, but its domestic market is also struggling. Malekzadeh explains how Iranian pharmaceutical companies are finding it difficult to bring in active ingredients from abroad, pointing out that sanctions on shipping insurance make movement of any purchased goods practically impossible. The purchasing of medical equipment is also becoming increasingly difficult. “We are not even able to buy endoscopy instruments, which are very simple things”, he says, emphasising the need for western governments to reassess the logistics of these exemptions, to make sure that they truly work. “To us, it seems like western powers have decided to punish the Iranian people.” --Nbauman (talk) 03:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

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citations are needed in certain portion of
Market=== ==

Can the writer or anybody provide citations to the follwoing:"The market share of local production (value-wise) has declined from 85.2% to 63.4% over the past 8 (Iranian) years (2009). In this period the value of importation has jumped from 14.8% to 36.6%. The government imposes 90% tariff on the import of drugs.". I'm now translating this article into traditional Chinese. Thanks for your kind attention. ThomasYehYeh (talk) 03:50, 22 February 2022 (UTC)