Latest Health and Medical News in Iran – Healthcare in Iran – Medical news and articles from across Iran, exploring various health challenges and developments faced nationally and globally.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to a proposal to consider as “martyrs” medical personnel who have lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, which has one of the highest numbers of infections outside China.
Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says reliance on the creativity of the younger generation, the potential of domestic knowledge-based companies, and the homegrown innovation and technology ecosystem will help the county overcome the coronavirus crisis.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker has called for universal intervention to lift inhumane US sanctions against the Islamic Republic in the face of the Coronavirus outbreak.
The Iranian ambassador to Moscow has announced that Russia will provide Iran with 50,000 coronavirus diagnosis kits and the batch will be sent to the country as soon as possible.
Iranian scientists have fabricated an alginate fibrous wound dressing with antibacterial and wound healing properties that can decrease disruption of red blood cells in the wound bed.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the first group of Bahraini citizens who had been stranded in Iran following the outbreak of coronavirus has returned home under the auspices of the Sultanate of Oman.
An Iranian official says the homegrown diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus will come onto the market in the next Iranian month (March 20 - April 19).
Chief of Iran’s Crisis Management Organization Ali Najjar has quarantined himself after testing positive for the COVID-19, says the spokesman for the organization.
Iran has cancelled the Nowruz international celebrations which were to be held in Kurdistan province due to the outbreak of Coronavirus in the Islamic Republic and the region.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the world’s silence over the United States’ “medical terrorism” against the Islamic Republic amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has urged the public to be careful and avoid unnecessary commuting and travelling amid concerns about the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in the country, which has so far killed 145 and infected over 5,000 others.
Iran’s minister of information and communications technology says the country’s Internet Service Providers will provide their clients with 100 Gigabytes of internet in the face of the novel Coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Fatemeh Rahbar, a conservative politician who had recently been elected as one of the 30 representatives of Tehran in the Iranian Parliament, has died of COVID-19.
World Health Organisation representatives have hailed Iran's fight against the novel coronavirus, saying the world would learn from Iran’s experiences in the fight against coronavirus.
