Iran Press/Iran news: "Despite Americans claims that sanctions imposed on Iran will not cover food and medicine, but affecting by the sanctions, some financial transfer is being locked.
But under the sanction pressures and with all the difficulties for importing medicine, we were totally successful in providing and importing medicine," Health Minister Saeed Namaki said in an exclusive interview with Iran Press on the sidelines of a press conference on June the 1st.
"If there are any medical productions and medicines that are rarely found, the reason is that our firms stand by our domestic medical productions. No medicine among domestic products will have the chance for import," Health Minister noted.
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He reiterated: "In case our domestic production is not high quality, definitely we will work to improve the quality."
"We strongly believe that our medical industry should not be trampled by the imported products," Namaki said while talking about domestic medical products.
Namaki added: "Documents and figures show that comparing the same date last year, the medical shortage is lesser now."
"There is no shortage of basic medicines. Any shortage if being reported refers to the importing. In this field if it refers to a rare disease, we import them, even though we have the special domestic one in the country," he said.
Namaki insisted that there is no medicine shortage in the country.104/209
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