Medicine prices in Iran have risen sharply and some treatments are hard to find, according to a wire report carried by ABC News and Business Standard.
Mina Mohammadian, a pharmacy salesperson in Tehran, told the report carried by ABC News that "the price of almost everything has gone up, in some cases doubling, quadrupling, or even increasing sixfold".
The report said dialysis tablets had risen by nearly 350% in recent months. It gave the same rise for over-the-counter painkillers such as acetaminophen.
Separately, IranWire reported that nurses in Iran are resigning in growing numbers. It said they cited pay that falls short of living costs, mandatory overtime and delayed payments.
The wire report said the problem was clearest at pharmacies. It said there was little sign of major shortages at hospitals, which appeared to be kept supplied.
An employee at one public hospital told the report that key psychiatric medicines were in short supply. The report did not say whether the shortage affected other hospitals.
Mehdi Pirsalehi, head of the government agency that sets drug prices, said the prices of 2,000 medicines had been "amended" over six months. He gave inflation and currency problems as the reasons.
Hadi Ahmadi, spokesman for the Iranian Pharmacists Association, said about 700,000 doses of flu vaccine had been imported from China. He said one jab cost 22 million rials, about $9, which is nearly double the price last year.
Mr Ahmadi said the authorities had promised free doses for high-risk patients, according to the report.
On staffing, IranWire quoted Loqman Sharifi, a member of the Supreme Council of the Iranian Nursing Organization. He said a nurse's monthly salary barely covers the first 10 days of the month.
IranWire is an outlet that is critical of the Iranian government. The Iranian Health Ministry had not been reported to have responded to the claims about nurse resignations.
Figures for the size of the nurse shortage vary between outlets. The Tehran Telegraph has not been able to confirm any nationwide number, so none is given here.
Opposition-linked outlets, including IranWire and Iran International, have blamed government mismanagement for the pressure on health services. Iranian officials point to sanctions and the US blockade.
Mr Pirsalehi's description of the price changes as adjustments for inflation and currency problems differs from the account of pharmacists and patients. They describe the changes as sharp rises.
The wire report said the United States has blockaded Iranian ports since June and has imposed tougher sanctions. It said Iran has attacked oil shipping routes in the region.
The report described the conflict as an economic endurance test for Iran. It did not give a detailed timeline of the war, and the Tehran Telegraph has not added one.
Iran's pharmaceutical industry relies on imported raw materials. The fall in the value of the rial has pushed up the cost of those imports.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Education runs the largest hospital network in the country, according to the encyclopaedia entry on healthcare in Iran.
Delays in payments from insurers and protests by nurses over pay have been a recurring theme in Iranian health care. They have mostly been reported by outlets that are critical of the government.
No scheduled official action on medicine prices or nurses' pay has been reported. Further price adjustments and more protests by nurses are possible, but neither has been confirmed.
,_District_20,_Tehran_-_July_4,_2016_12.jpg){kind=link}