Director of the South Egypt Cancer Institute of Asyut University Mostafa al-Sharqawy announced Sunday that the institute is suffering shortage of saline solutions, he added that the current stock is enough for only five days, Youm7 reported.
Pharmaceutical companies could not provide the institute with the required quantity of solutions due to the dollar crisis, he added, noting that that total number of patients who receive medical care in the institute reached 36,000 people.
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) struggles to provide hard currency to other banks, so the importers find no dollar liquidity required to buy their raw materials.
