Sudan: Parliamentary Health Committee Predicts 'Impending Disaster' As Medicine Prices Soar

18 December 2017

Khartoum — The health committee of the Sudanese Parliament expects an 'impending disaster in the pharmaceutical sector' and announced that foreign companies have stopped supplying medical supplies and lifesaving and chronic disease medicines because of the accumulation of debts.

The committee chair, Imtithal El Rayah El Tireif, acknowledged that medicine prices have increased threefold, putting them beyond people's affordability. She pointed out that 100 categories of life-saving medicines are not available in the private sector.

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