Around 110 Iranian Doctors and Healthcare Workers Die from Coronavirus Infection
According to published reports, approximately 1,600 doctors and healthcare workers in Iran have been infected with coronavirus, and 110 of them have died.
The public relations director of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd announced on Tuesday, March 17, that 56 healthcare workers from this university have been definitively infected with the disease.
Vahid Ahmadi, the health deputy of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, also said on Tuesday that 52 cases of healthcare workers have been infected with coronavirus.
On Monday, it was announced that Mehrdad Norouzi, a general practitioner working in Kermanshah, died due to coronavirus infection.
Abolfazl Afride, the director of treatment at the Social Security Organization, had also reported on April 14 that 300 healthcare workers in the organization’s hospitals have been infected with coronavirus, and 10 of them have died.
Previously, the names of 105 doctors and healthcare workers who died from coronavirus infection had been published.
Based on these statistics and names, 30 people in Tehran Province, 28 people in Gilan Province, and approximately 20 people in Mazandaran Province among doctors and healthcare workers have died.
These provinces are among those with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
Narges Khanalizadeh, a 25-year-old nurse at Milad Hospital in Lahijan, was the first nurse whose death from coronavirus infection was reported.
Previously, reports about the lack of appropriate protective equipment for Iranian medical staff had been published.
Meanwhile, the East Gilan Nursing Order Organization had requested from the people and charitable individuals in the month of Esfand to help hospitals in East Gilan by providing masks, clothing, and protective equipment.
In the meantime, the newspaper “Iran” had written in a report: “The continuous contact of nurses and doctors with patients infected with COVID-19 has exposed them to high concentrations of coronavirus, and this issue increases the level of involvement and infection among healthcare workers.”
Behrouz Boniadi, a parliament representative, had also said that due to the lack of official announcement of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, “a number of nurses and doctors have become victims of delayed information dissemination.”
Several officials from Iran’s Ministry of Health have also warned about the outbreak of the second wave of coronavirus and its effects on healthcare workers who have been working for approximately two months and have become “exhausted.”
Source: Radio Farda
