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According to a reporter of the DeirEzzor24 network, The people of Deir Ezzor city and its countryside are experiencing high prices and disparities in prices among the city’s private hospitals, with little or no health oversight.
Our reporter said that some residents of the countryside and the city now go to private hospitals as long as they offer services and operations that are currently unavailable in government hospitals and free health centers.
Nadia al-Fahd, from the Deir Ezzor countryside, told DeirEzzor24 Network, “I urgently went to the private hospital from the town of al-Tabni, west of Deir Ezzor, to perform a cesarean section for my daughter.”
She added, “The cost reached 950,000 Syrian pounds, not including the cost of the medication, which also ranges between 75,000 and 100,000 SYP. The cost of a basic operation in other cities ranges between 450,000 and 500,000 Syrian pounds.”
Haj Abu Abdullah stated DeirEzzor24, “Private hospitals in Deir Ezzor are expensive. Residents go to these hospitals for emergency care, such as heart and pediatric patients. For more serious cases, they head to hospitals in northern Syria or areas in the east of the Euphrates.”
Residents of Deir Ezzor are calling on the Health Directorate to standardize prices at private hospitals and impose them on all hospitals within the city and its countryside, to prevent them from being exploited when they visit.
