The situation of oral antibiotics has improved/ we have excess production of acetaminophen syrup

According to Fars news agency’s health department report, Seyed Haider Mohammadi, head of the Food and Drug Organization, at the meeting of presidents of universities and faculties of medical sciences across the country at the Martyrs’ Complex for the Defense of Health in Mashhad, said: “In the past one or two weeks, an adequate amount of anesthetic drugs It has entered the country and last week the first batch of domestically produced anesthetic drug “Bupivacaine” entered the market, and the drug “Rupivacaine” will also enter the market next week.

He added: In the past, the monthly supply of propofol was 200,000, but now this number has reached 800,000 and the stock of this drug is in a good condition.

Referring to the lack of acetaminophen syrup in the previous months, the deputy minister of health said: “Currently, we have a surplus of acetaminophen syrup production and there is a very good reserve in the drug manufacturing and distribution companies.”

The head of the Food and Drug Organization pointed out: Universities of medical sciences can view the inventory of other universities and provinces through the TITEC system and access it in this system, so that in case of shortage of some items, they can supply them from other universities.

Dr. Mohammadi emphasized: With the special and round-the-clock follow-up of the Minister of Health, it was decided that 10 thousand billion tomans will be allocated for medicine from other sources, except for the targeting of subsidies, of which 9 thousand billion tomans have been done, of which 3,600 billion tomans For health insurance, 4,500 billion tomans have been earmarked for social security insurance and 900 billion tomans for armed forces insurance.

He said: “Medical centers and universities should not be late in presenting insurance documents so that it can be settled quickly, and we demand that the insurance companies pay the documents against the account so that the claims in the field of medicine are paid.”

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