Secondary Sanctions and Medicine Shortages

President Vučić, has the so-called Government of Serbia that you lead calculated an acceptable number of victims of the secondary sanctions you are playing with?

By putting Serbia at risk of secondary sanctions that would halt international financial transactions and reduce imports to smuggling of everything — including medicines — you are directly exposing citizens to the greatest public health danger in recent history: a shortage of essential drugs.

Even now, without any sanctions, Serbia is facing occasional shortages of life-saving medicines. Secondary sanctions carry the risk that diabetics will be left without insulin, cancer patients without chemotherapy, people requiring surgery without anesthetics, and those who have already waited too long for artificial hips and knees may never receive them…

The regime and selected parts of its corrupt octopus will not be affected, but what can sick citizens hope for?

How many victims of medicine shortages is an acceptable price for Vučić’s fear of Putin’s Russia, and will the regime prepare guidelines for medical institutions on the criteria healthcare workers should use to decide who lives and who is sentenced to death without therapy?

Vučić’s tactic of solving the problems he created by producing even more catastrophic ones is a cancer for the state — one that has metastasized into every part of life. And the longer he remains in power, the smaller Serbia’s chances are of surviving and recovering.