Healthcare in Iran

The latest news and views about healthcare in Iran

Healthcare

Iran faces demographic challenge as births drop below one million for first time

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi announced that the number of births in Iran is projected to fall below one million for the first time in 2024.
Healthcare

Iran’s deputy health minister warns of imminent population crisis

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s Deputy Health Minister, has issued a stark warning about the country’s declining birth rate and the potential demographic crisis it could lead to in the coming decades.
Healthcare

15 people die of alcohol poisoning in Iran 

IFP Editorial Staff -
At least 15 people have died of alcohol poisoning in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. Medical sources in Mazandaran say the victims include 13 men and 2 women above the age of 22. 
Healthcare

MP: 1,590 nurses resigned in Iran last year amid growing healthcare crisis

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s healthcare system is facing a significant crisis as 1,590 nurses resigned last year, according to the spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament’s Health Committee Salman Es’haqi.
Society

Report: Suicide death rate in Iran surges past 40 percent

IFP Editorial Staff -
The death rate due to suicide in Iran is 5.1 cases per 100,000 people which has witnessed an over 40-percent spiral in the past ten years, Tehran-based Etemad newspaper reported citing official figures.
Healthcare

Iran identifies 178 dengue fever cases in country

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iranian health officials have confirmed that 178 people have contracted dengue fever in the country in the last five months, 38 of whom have never left the country.
Healthcare

152 people contract dengue fever in Iran as of March 20 

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s Ministry of Health says 152 people have contracted dengue fever since March 20, 2024. Dengue fever is spread by Aedes mosquitoes.
Healthcare

Iran detects dengue fever-causing Aedes mosquito in six provinces

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iranian health officials say Aedes mosquitoes, whose bite causes dengue fever, have been traced in six border provinces across the country, blaming most of the infections on trips to the southern neighbor the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Healthcare

Official: Dengue fever under control in Iran, 150 contracted

IFP Editorial Staff -
The number of people affected by dengue fever, which is common in tropical and subtropical climates, has remained 150 across Iran during the past weeks, according to the latest update by the Health Ministry on Saturday.
Healthcare

Iran Health Ministry: Dengue fever won’t become Corona-like epidemic

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s health ministry allayed public concerns on Saturday over the spread of Dengue Fever in the country by dismissing reports that the disease might spread as an epidemic like the coronavirus.
Healthcare

Official: 138 cases of dengue fever reported in Iran

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran's Deputy Health  Minister announced that since May of this year, 138 cases of dengue fever have been identified in Iran.
Healthcare

90 people contract dengue fever in Iran, 3 killed

IFP Editorial Staff -
Three people have so far died of Dengue fever in Iran, says Iranian Health Minister Bahram Eynollahi.
Healthcare

Three people die of dengue fever in Iran

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran has recorded 92 dengue fever cases including three deaths. That’s according to the country’s deputy health minister.
Healthcare

Iranian surgeons successfully separate conjoined twins

IFP Editorial Staff -
Two female siblings who were connected to each other at birth were successfully separated in an hours-long surgery in a hospital in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.
Healthcare

Iran Health int’l exhibition underway in Tehran

Golrokh Askarieh -
The Iranian capital Tehran is hosting hundreds of medical, dental and pharmaceutical companies from dozens of countries in a major health exhibition.
Healthcare

Iran gets Family Health Project approved by WHO

IFP Editorial Staff -
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the Family Health Project as an Iranian initiative that can help upgrade healthcare within societies across the world.
Healthcare

Official: Mass migration of Iranian nurses ‘serious alarm’ for healthcare system

IFP Editorial Staff -
The mass exodus of the nurses from Iran over their working conditions and low salaries poses a serious threat to the country’s healthcare system, the head of the Iranian Nursing Organization has said in a renewed warning.
Healthcare

Iranian specialist: JN.1 COVID-19 variant not lethal

IFP Editorial Staff -
After the first case of JN.1 variant of COVID-19 was detected in Iran, an Iranian infectious disease specialist has sought to sooth concerns among the public, saying the substrain, although highly transmissible, is not fatal.
Incidents

Fire breaks out at Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, emergency response underway

IFP Editorial Staff -
Gandhi Hospital in northern Tehran has caught fire, prompting swift action from the local fire department and emergency services.
Healthcare

Psychiatrist Association: Suicide rates among medical graduates in Iran alarming

IFP Editorial Staff -
The Iranian Psychiatric Association has written a letter to President Ebrahim Raisi, raising a red flag over the surging suicide rates among the resident physicians in the country.
Healthcare

Official: Up to 10k best nurses of Iran have migrated

IFP Editorial Staff -
The head of the nursing council organization of Iran says "wrong policies" toward the profession has disillusioned nurses in Iran and called for those responsible for those policies to be held accountable.
Healthcare

Iranin knowledge-based company indigenizes production of cancer treatment medicine 

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran has started production of a drug internationally used for treatment of cancer at home which will save the country five million dollars annually. 
Science and Technology

Treatment of cancer patients using novel nuclear techniques 

Golrokh Askarieh -
For the first time in Iran, patients with advanced cancer resistant to treatment have been treated in Bushehr Nuclear Medicine Center using AlphaZa radiopharmaceutical, which is a new targeted radionuclide treatment technique.
Healthcare

Iranian mom gives birth to huge 6.9 kg baby, the heaviest ever recorded in Iran

IFP Editorial Staff -
A mother gave birth to her 6.9-kilogram (15.2-pound) baby in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, the heaviest ever recorded in Iran.
Healthcare

Official says patients die in Iran due to mass migration of nurses, 3k nurses migrate

IFP Editorial Staff -
The migration of medical staff from Iran is reaching a critical point, leading to the death of patients in hospitals that are short of nurses, an Iranian official has warned.
123...48Page 1 of 48

Latest news

© All Content by IFP News ( Iran Front Page ) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

About Us

Popular Articles

Editor Picks