TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RIM HADDAD Customers queue up for medication at a pharmacy in Damascus on September 17, 2013. Drug production in Syria has come to a near total halt in the country ever since the brutal war broke out 30 months ago, which has caused drug shortages of locally-produced medicines and foreign produced medicines are now being smuggled in at five times the price, a government newspaper warned. The portrait on the wall shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
![TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RIM HADDAD
Customers queue up for medication at a pharmacy in Damascus on September 17, 2013. Drug production in Syria has come to a near total halt in the country ever since the brutal war broke out 30 months ago, which has caused drug shortages of locally-produced medicines and foreign produced medicines are now being smuggled in at five times the price, a government newspaper warned. The portrait on the wall shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)](https://embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/id/180872761/photo/syria-conflict-health-medicine.jpg?s=594x594&w=0&k=20&c=-6Ut6klBsCph6H87Mq5fKNsndX5MXiHztOaH_Tp2cEQ=&Expires=1722128400&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIJLYLGZE3LWJLKRA&Signature=dJuwSMZAgp5fpeiNW~WCRu9Tmz9R47JyThobzBLNMwwUdYilTmqTqGeauNkQCBvoQcPIh6Rd03gK4h60MtQ2MTZO5O~3euVAfd42kDWeTn9cUQAbKVn9a6ZcuUJMIz8IoKG2JgiirEGrKx7BscTB8GH7bN5Az~5Ghi7kLkxK0r5N1feXuNDTF8I6h15BkiAEuHeGftsrkszwGUQKsXXPAIuaRQOtUZSLF6teJvL5Fzxm~6NRxmBkmzxTCarZTmvfdvDujk9aejl09rXhenLtLFOUcgNUhYWnL9PBiSpWwxIzK5P8yJHd7kqJOXwUBZdBrMD2ap6OXYPF~6bzkUZsQ3JQPUEBsPFzHqZRmgPUGAF4VphQEDXvcOOCf~8L7y1~wy-oMcklMldGOhxxIz7P9J8PwSCzVRXACZlAQ9tiSjUiKcea4yK2xszQnjkxe3DUKxa04-zSrzY2VEE7qwpeAGuIdLHUhFySSNaMe2lOQKuMT~UN6mI6qAMrGRVybwOfPApFkdgA13WYeoEpw-ginpDl8j~zT7sshKm1aU~yJF26vZIdHzZx4bG5lcmv63Z7F-lBCHz-oXsmiyIw0trgIhYRLKbViUvrOjmAPkPVHuH1Zt0x1jVnuetru8BiFvcZ6KDHzhOCeTHuAPT0e8vIi4U6kBARMpSXlMkl7MgBgLY_)