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The global economy in the healthcare industry is growing faster than in other economic sectors. Therefore, there are various issues in providing health care and complexity in health care systems around the world that highlight the need for efficient management of health care supply chains (Nasrollahi, Razmi, & Ghodsi, A combined fuzzy PCA approach for location optimization and capacity planning in Glycyrrhizae green supply network design, 2019; Mostaghel, Oghazi, Patel, Parida, & Hultman, 2019; Dallasega & Sarkis, 2018; Benjaafar, Li, & Daskin, 2012). Supply chain management in healthcare is more complex than in other industries due to its impact on public health (Shah, 2004; Benjaafar, Li, & Daskin, 2012; Marcon, Chaabane, Sallez, Bonte, & Trentesaux, 2017). It should be noted that the design of the supply network as a strategic level of supply chain management decisions requires special attention. Due to the wide range of services provided in health and treatment networks and also the need of all members of society for the services of this industry, researchers have recently drawn attention to the proper design of supply chains in the health and treatment industry (Villa, Bellomo, & Cassarino, 2005; Srivastava, 2007; Wendy, Johnsen, Caldwell, & Lewis, 2007; Laya, Markendahl, & Lundberg, 2018; Wald, Lowery-Schrandt, Hayes, & Kotsenas, 2018; Boone, 2019; Fathollahi-Fard, Govindan, Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, & Ahmadi, 2019; Moreno-Camacho, Montoya-Torres, Jaegler, & Gondran, 2019; Zhang, Yang, Yu, & Wang, 2019; Koushki-Jahromi & Safaei, 2020).