When a pharmacist in Iraq told Umm Mohammed her prescription for a skin ailment would cost about 800,000 dinars ($611), she turned to cheaper natural remedies as some of her relatives had done.
In a herbal remedy shop, the 34-year-old mother-of-two found a treatment eight times cheaper. "Pharmacies are a disaster at the moment, poor people turn to medicinal herbs because of the prices," she said. "Who can afford this? Should one die? So you turn to medicinal herbs."
"The economic situation the country is passing through means that the cost of medicine is hard to bear especially for those with a limited income," said Dr. Haider Sabah, who heads Iraq's national centre for herbal medicine, a regulatory state body affiliated to the Ministry of Health. In recent years, Sabah has seen more herbal centres open in the capital, Baghdad. There are now 460 establishments with a permit to sell herbal medicines, up from 350 in 2020, according to his database.
He recalled the case of a patient who had replaced his prescription with a herbal treatment and "reached the point of what we doctors refer to as diabetic ketoacidosis and the patient had to be admitted to the ICU," Naser said.
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