Shahrzad News - The acute shortage of qualified nurses in Iran’s healthcare system is putting additional stress on the existing workforce. Meanwhile overtime pay is below international norms. Though the Iranian legislature has passed many bills intended to support nurses, they rarely actually benefit from them owing to the general economic hardship. Furthermore the shortage of staff has doubled their hours of work.
According to Bahar News, the Nursing Association’s high council recently issued a report strongly criticizing the Iranian health ministry. It claimed that the only action the department’s new minister had taken so far was to rid the association of its deputy, after twenty years’ service to Iranian healthcare. The general secretary of the nurses’ told Bahar News that the nursing profession “was fighting a chronic disease” after the deputy had been removed. “Unless the health ministry performs an emergency operation, there will be no more nurses before long.”
