While the majority of citizens are no longer able to count the bills due, the doctor’s “examination” in the Nabatiyeh region is now in US dollars, between 20 and 30 dollars depending on the specialty, after hospitals had deliberately “dollarized” their bills, while the citizen was groaning from his pain.
The aforementioned means that the doctor’s “examination” has become equivalent to half of the employee’s salary, which leads citizens to worry about visiting doctors, and they prefer to go to pharmacists to prescribe the appropriate medicine, and thus provide an allowance for the doctor’s doorstep, despite the significant increase in drug prices.
In this context, Joseph T. He points out that with the increase in the doctor’s fees, he can no longer visit him, and therefore he has to endure his pain and rely on painkillers. The poor, we are living below the poverty line, and the United Nations, which recognizes this, supports the displaced Syrians and withholds its aid from us, and even threatens our country if they leave our lands by cutting off aid.”
For his part, Muhammad Saad points out that “we live in anxiety for our lives,” and indicates that “if we decide to visit a doctor or hospital, we have to sell our homes to pay the allowance,” and asks: “Is this reasonable in a country that is retreating backwards and is on the brink of collapse?” He added, “It is the shock that hit us before we became ill, and today we have to bid farewell to the age of medicine and return to the Arab doctor and herbal medicine, but that does not solve the crisis in this difficult and harsh situation.”
In turn, Sumaya Q. That the doctor wants to live in stability and his union allowed him to transfer from the national currency to the dollar, to give him a dose of stability in his homeland after many of his counterparts emigrated, but she stresses that the patient also has the right to medical treatment, not all citizens are from the well-to-do groups, but there is a wide segment below the poverty line .
On the other hand, one of the doctors explains that some patients do not care about the dollarization, but he points out that “this category does not constitute the whole of society, but rather there is a segment that lives on 4 million pounds per month, and it stands bewildered and asks us to take into account it because the guarantee does not return half of the fees.” And he points out that “the citizen is shackled by electricity, telephone and petrol bills, and we are like him, but in the end we must live with this bitter reality.”
For this doctor, the dollarization move moves from one sector to another, but it undoubtedly has negative repercussions on workers, employees, and people with limited income, in addition to workers, farmers, and employees in the public sector, given that the increases they receive are rapidly eroding in the face of the continuous rise in the exchange rate. dollar.
2023-04-29 00:00:52
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