About 110 Iranian doctors and medical staff die from coronavirus

According to published reports, about 1,600 doctors and medical staff in Iran have been infected with the coronavirus and 110 of them have died.

The public relations director of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd announced on Tuesday, March 16, that so far 56 members of the university's medical staff have been confirmed to be infected with the disease.

Vahid Ahmadi, deputy director of health at Kerman University of Medical Sciences, also said on Tuesday that so far 52 medical staff have been infected with the coronavirus.

On Monday, it was announced that Mehrdad Norouzi, a general practitioner working in Kermanshah, had died from coronavirus.

Abolfazl Afrideh, the director of medical care at the Social Security Organization, also announced on April 14 that 300 medical staff at the organization's hospitals had been infected with the coronavirus and 10 of them had died.

Previously, the names of 105 doctors and medical staff who died from coronavirus were published.

Based on these statistics and names, 30 people have died in Tehran Province, 28 in Gilan Province, and about 20 doctors and medical staff in Mazandaran Province.

These provinces are among the provinces that have had the most cases and deaths from coronavirus.

Narjes Khanalizadeh, a 25-year-old nurse at Milad Hospital in Lahijan, was the first nurse whose death from coronavirus was announced.

There had previously been reports about a shortage of appropriate clothing for Iranian medical staff.

Meanwhile, in March, the Eastern Guilan Nursing System Organization asked people and charitable individuals to help provide masks, clothing, and protective equipment to hospitals in Eastern Guilan.

Meanwhile, the Iran newspaper wrote in a report: "The continuous contact of nurses and doctors with patients infected with Covid-19 has exposed them to a high concentration of the coronavirus, and this issue increases the level of conflict and infection among medical staff."

Behrouz Boni, a member of parliament, also said that due to the lack of official announcement of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, "a number of nurses and doctors have fallen victim to the lack of timely information."

A number of Iranian Ministry of Health officials have also warned about the spread of a second wave of the coronavirus and its effects on medical staff who have been working for the past two months and are "weary."

Source: Radio Farda