Media outlets loyal to the Assad regime revealed a noticeable shortage of baby food, noting that importing companies supply pharmacies with small rations of no more than one or two boxes a week of any type.
On the Athar Press Al-Mawali website, it was reported that Hasan Deirwan, Chairman of the Pharmacists’ Union branch in Damascus, said that the central pharmacies took the largest share of the milk and that the sale was made through the family book and the box was opened. Pharmacist, to prevent it from being sold on the black market for between 40 thousand and 50 thousand Syrian pounds.
Derwan pointed out that there is a shortage of “Nan 1”, “Nan 2” and “Kykoz” types because they belong to the “Nestle” company, pointing out that other alternative companies are currently being taken care of until the supply of the missing species, according to the affiliated “Athar Press” website.
Dirwan added that 3 new baby food brands are on the market, but the price of a box of these products varies between 30 thousand and 35 thousand Syrian liras, and they think that these new products will solve some of the problem, not the whole.
