Algerian merchants sell fake diabetes medicines in the black market

Medicines for diabetes treatment are packed in bottles and sold on the black market at exorbitant prices, claiming that it cures chronic diabetes patients, Head of the National Federation of Diabetes Patients Associations, Noureddine Bousetta told Echorouk here on Saturday.

“This medicine was smuggled from abroad at 2000 DA and is sold on the black market at some 15000 DA. People who smuggle it to Algeria and sold it are the “merchants of death”. This herbal medicine was promoted by a TV channel “Al Hakika” and is now sold in Algerian market.

“I advise diabetic patients to stop listening to foreign TV channels which promote herbs harmful to their bodies and stop using herbs in the treatment of this disease, in particular. It is common in patients with diabetes chewing olive leaves because the bitter tastes in order to reduce the proportion of sugar in the blood, however eating herbals with bitter taste burns sugar in the body and then exposed the person to sharp decline in sugar and destructs all small arteries then kidneys stop functioning causing other complications”, he added.

Herbals treat bacterial and viral diseases only. People should know is that patients with diabetes should eat wild thyme because it purifies the white blood and helps transport oxygen through the human body. There is no herbal that can replace the Insulin and has the same cure. All herbals that patients with diabetes eat may bring a cure in the first time, but if they consume it several times it may develop serious complications”.

“There is a national paucity of Insulin and not in Algiers alone, especially in interior hospitals. We have contacted all laboratories which import insulin in Algeria and insulin manufacturer in Constantine (East of Algeria) and they asserted that it is available in Algeria and the cause of scarcity in hospitals in unjustified”.