Health and Hygiene

VOA — Iran’s health ministry said Monday a total of 84 people have died and nearly 1,000 been poisoned from consuming bootleg alcohol over the past six weeks, ISNA news agency reported.

Iran-HRM – Employees of Khomeini Hospital sell their kidneys to survive

Iran-HRM – Urmia central prisoners Gholamreza Tubaragh Ghaleh, Reza Malek Rezaie, and Sajjad Jamali Fard have died due to authorities’ refusal to arrange for appropriate medical treatment, joining a dismal trend of detainee deaths related to medical neglect.

Iran-HRM – The head of the Khuzestan Health Center said that they had witnessed 34 cases of Hepatitis A in the towns of Masjed Soleiman and Izeh.

Iran-HRM – A glance at the increasing trend of suicide in Iran

Iran-HRM – Social harms have become feminized in Iran and turned into a tragedy that has swept across the country. For the first time, the deputy director of the Social Affairs Organization of the Ministry of Interior revealed the huge dimensions of social ailments afflicting women in Iran, and emphasized that social ailments are becoming feminized.

Radiofarda – Iran’s health ministry spokesman has admitted that the country is currently suffering from shortages of foreign-made medications, but, insisted that “it can be overcome”.

Radiofarda – While Persian-speaking satellite channels in Iran have been periodically subject to jamming since 2003, the information and communications technology minister says that equipment for monitoring “jamming signals” has been installed in the city of Shiraz and several other cities across the country.

Iran-HRM – Due to being in debt to pharmaceutical companies, some medical science universities don’t deliver special patients’ drug quota in a timely manner, thus making difficulties for patients, says director of Iran’s Hemophilia Society.

RFL/RE – More than 800 people have been poisoned after eating toxic wild mushrooms across western Iran, local media report.