Thursday, March 28, 2024

Healthcare in Iran

Health minister: 1.2 million foreign patients received treatment in Iran last year

Iranian Health Minister Dr. Bahram Einollahi says 1.2 million foreign patients received treatment at the country’s health facilities in the past Iranian calendar year (ended 20 March).

MP urges President Raisi to put Iranians’ medical needs before those of Indonesians

An Iranian lawmaker has criticized President Ebrahim Raisi for promising to equip a dozen hospitals in Indonesia with Iranian-made products while “a number of Iran’s own towns lack proper health facilities.”

Five people contract Crimean fever in Iran

An Iranian Health Ministry official says five cases of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been reported in Iran since the start of the Iranian calendar year in March.

More specialists migrating from Iran than GPs: Daily

Specialist doctors are migrating from Iran at a faster rate than general practitioners, whose emigration rate is already very high, a new report says.

Iranian Thalassemia Society: 100s of patients died due to sanctions since 2018

The Iranian Thalassemia Society says hundreds of patients have lost their lives due to the anti-Iranian sanctions spearheaded by the US.

Official: Huge numbers of Iranian nurses migrating to foreign countries 

Iranian nurses are migrating to the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Europe. That’s according to the head of Iran’s Nurse House, Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam.

Iranian health minister: WHO has confirmed eradication of measles and rubella in Iran

Iranian Health Minister Bahram Einollahi says the World Health Organization has confirmed Iran’s successful eradicating of measles and rubella.

Iranian govt. approves free infertility insurance, abortion medication no longer available

The Iranian Health Ministry has announced that abortion has been criminalized in the country.

Covid kills 22 in Iran in 24 hours as official warns of more new cases

Covid-19 has claimed 22 more lives in Iran over the past 24 hours. That's according to the Iranian health ministrys latest tally on Wednesday.

Iran’s Raisi opens advanced cancer treatment center

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurates a high-tech medical center specializing in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

Iranian official: Substances used for poisoning students not military chemical agents  

Iran’s deputy health minister implicitly admits that the poisoning of female students in several schools in the city of Qom was deliberate.

Nurses’ representative body: 200 staff emigrating from Iran every month

Director General of Iran’s Khaneh Parastar – Nurses’ House – a private representative body for nurses, says the number of goodstanding certificates that confirm a staff member had no misconduct show at least 2,500 to 3,000 nurses are leaving Iran every year.

Hundreds contract cholera in Iran; no deaths reported 

The director of the Iranian Ministry of Health’s Center for Controlling Communicable Diseases has said 360 people in the country have contracted cholera.

Nuclear chief: Iran ranks world’s 5th in production of radiopharmaceuticals

The Iranian atomic chief praises the country’s progress in the development of radiopharmaceuticals, especially those fighting cancer, rejecting “lies” spread by the Israeli regime about diversion in the country’s nuclear activities.

Iran says one million patients treated using domestically-made radiopharmaceuticals

The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the country has reached international standards in the production of radiopharmaceuticals, adding around one million patients are being treated annually using these drugs.

“600k people die of exposure to tobacco smoke in Iran each year”

The head of the Secretariat of Iran’s National Tobacco Control Headquarters says 600 thousand people die each year because of exposure to tobacco smoke also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).

Iranian scientists develop radiopharmaceutical for cancer treatment

Iranian scientists have developed a radiopharmaceutical for targeted treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, in another great step in the country’s efforts to use nuclear technology to promote medical science.

Head of Iranian Medical Council: Iran will have no heart surgeons in 5 years

The head of Iran’s Medical Council has warned about the decrease in the number of doctors and surgeons in the country, adding there will be no heart surgeon in the country in five years.

Iran health experts urge preparations against 2nd wave of influenza in Feb.

Iranian health experts are calling for preparations to face a second of annual wave of infections with influenza in the country, while the first wave, which began earlier than usual this year, is on the decline.

Health official: Influenza cases on downward trend in Iran

An Iranian health official says the rate of infections with influenza is now on a downward trend, less than two months after the annual wave of the respiratory disease started in the country.

Some foreign firms refusing to sell Iran drugs due to US sanctions: Official

The head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration says some foreign companies refuse to sell Tehran the required medicines under the pretext of the sanctions imposed on the country by the US.

‘US bans on Iran don’t target medicines, but financial mechanisms to buy them’

The deputy head of the Iranian union of pharmaceutical importers says the United States’ sanctions on Iran do not target imports of medicines but the financial mechanisms to buy them.

Official: An estimated 2,000 nurses emigrate from Iran every year

An Iranian official says an estimated 2,000 nurses leave Iran for other countries every year ——— which makes 200 per month — mainly due to dissatisfaction with a lack of harmony between their income and the health services they offer.

Raisi administration official speaks of ‘golden opportunities’ in medicinal herb industry

The caretaker director of the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology says there are “golden opportunities” for Iran in the medicinal herb industry.

Flu now an epidemic in Iran: Health official

An Iranian health official says cases of infection with seasonal influenza have increased significantly in Iran, and the disease is now considered an epidemic.

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