سوت‌زنی | Children’s hearing in the monopoly of expensive sellers

According to Fars News Agency, with the development of medical equipment knowledge since 1370, more than 13,000 cochlear implants have been performed in the country, so that 3 to 4 thousand deaf children are born in the country annually, of which only 50% of these children can use Cochlear implant systems benefit from hearing aids, while these children may lose the golden age for surgery if they do not pay for the device, due to the high exchange rate of these systems and their consumables.

Knowledge-based companies have sought to localize and mass-produce cochlear components, but now three Iranian companies are the exclusive representatives of each of Australia, the United States and Austria to supply three types of cochlea.

In order to respect the rights of citizens, the Food and Drug Administration has set a price ceiling for a number of cochlear implants Your site Has published, so that the mentioned companies must offer the products to the applicants at the maximum price approved on the site.

However, according to the reports sent in Fars News Agency’s whistling system, one of the companies sells its products to the applicants at a higher price than the price approved by the Food and Drug Administration website. In this regard, we go to the relevant reporter to verify this issue.

In an interview with Fars News Agency, the reporter stated that he has been involved in the supply of cochlear implants for more than 13 years. It also pays for most of the replacement of the external part of this device, but repairing and replacing the consumable parts is very expensive for us, a population of about 13,000 people, so I can say that I have spent more than 300 million tomans over the years.

He pointed to a 40% increase in the price of one of the exclusive cochlear parts companies and added: the battery, coil wire and other cochlear parts should be replaced after a while and purchased from the exclusive representative of the relevant foreign company, if the parts of most imported devices Is provided by the agency that offers the cost of its products above the price approved by the Food and Drug Administration; For example, the coil wire on the site is 648 thousand tomans, but this company sells 897 thousand tomans, or the amount of a type of battery is 1 million and 223 thousand tomans on the site, but this agency offers 1 million 750 thousand tomans.

Regarding the monopoly of the companies providing the mentioned parts, the reporter said: the General Directorate of Medical Equipment and Supplies devotes only 4 days a year to the auction of supplying cochlear implants for implantation, in other words, not only is there no attempt to break the monopoly of these companies, but These conditions of solitude are for the unbridled monopolies of foreign companies.

To ensure the expert pricing on the site, we contacted Bahram Daraei, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, who said: The final price of the consumer of medical equipment, including cochlear implants, is available in the inquiry section of the Food and Drug Administration website and all service companies should Offer their products at these prices.

Based on the above, the cochlear parts that need to be provided to the people with the most facilities have been monopolized by the sellers and the applicants have to buy from this company, so the government and the Food and Drug Administration punish the process Supervise the products of the exclusive dealers of the cochlea, so that the monopoly of this market is broken and by offering the products at the approved price, there is no additional pressure on the deaf and hard of hearing population of the country.

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