The problems experienced by the pharmaceutical market in Syria led to the interruption and the lack of many of the necessary medications for patients, who depend on them permanently, especially thyroid patients, heart diseases, pressure, kidneys, and other diseases.
In this regard, a number of Syrian youth, and through personal initiatives, have launched a number of campaigns on social media, which aim to provide the necessary drugs to patients on the widest range and within the existing capabilities.
Among these campaigns are the "Doak for us" campaign and the "Taba Dua" campaign, which were launched on the social networking site "Facebook", and they met within a short time a wide spread among the population, inside and outside Damascus.
The idea of these campaigns is to collect the largest possible number of people, within one group, where each person displays the medicines he has and the surplus of his need to be used by those who need it, and those who need the drug ask about their need of it.
For its part, Dima Melhem campaign organization, Dima Melhem, told Emirates Today that it has created this campaign with the help of a group of friends after the drug problem has increased and has stopped in the country.
She added that the aim of the campaign is to help patients, especially those who depend mainly on medication in their lives, such as patients with heart, pressure, kidneys and nerves.
She also expressed the surprise of the founders of the campaign in the large numbers that joined this campaign, with the aim of benefiting and benefiting, and within a very short period of time, which indicates a great awareness among the people in these difficult circumstances.
On the way to deliver medicines, she indicated that this initiative is a link between people to help each other, and with an agreement between the two parties on the appropriate place and time to deliver the medicine.
She emphasized that the drug is distributed among people for free, because this initiative is a humanitarian initiative only, noting that it is not possible to sell the drug through the Internet, which is something that is already forbidden.
This comes in conjunction with the Syrian pound's record deterioration in its value in the parallel market, to cross the threshold of 2,300 pounds against the dollar.