Babak Khatibi, a doctor and pediatric specialist, said, pointing to the drug crisis and the increase in treatment costs, that the lack of medicine and abandoning treatment could increase the complications and mortality caused by diseases, and push families toward the black market and medicines with unclear authenticity.

He, pointing to the rising prices and lack of infant formula, said that inadequate nutrition for children in the first two years of life can affect their brain growth, and that the absence of some medicinal formulas is “playing with the lives” of children who need them.