The Iranian government has announced that nurses in hospitals and care homes across the country would see their wages increase by another 50 percent with immediate effect amid various support schemes introduced by authorities to help the healthcare system cope with the surging number of coronavirus patients. Kamel Taghavinejad, a deputy health minister,...

Financial Tribune - A total of 3,000 nurses and other healthcare workers will be employed by the government, according to a letter sent by the head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, to Health Minister Saeed Namaki on July 6. PBO has allocated 10 trillion rials ($44.4 million) from the resources of Targeted Subsidies ...

FNA | Mehdi Marizad: Iranian medical workers recite Quran (holy book of Muslims) for patients infected with the novel coronavirus in hospitals during holy month of Ramadan.  

IRNA The deputy health minister for nursing said on Monday that 80,856 nurses, equal to 65 percent of the nurses in the public section, are in the front-line of looking after coronavirus patients. Maryam Hazrati said in a video press conference that the number does not include the nurses of the hospitals Armed Forces, banks, charity, and the private ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Negar Mortazavi: Narjes Khanalizadeh was a 25-year-old nurse in Gilan, a province along the Caspian Sea in northern Iran. In late February, after working with coronavirus patients at a hospital in the city of Lahijan, she fell sick. Within a few days, she was dead. A week later, results from a coronavirus test that had been administered ...

FNA - Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Monday that the selfless job of Iranian medical staff to treat COVID-19 patients, through putting their own health at stake, will never be erased from the nations mind. The powerful Iranian medical community did a great job in battling coronavirus, Jahangiri said adding that the great dimensions ...