Health and Hygiene

PayvandNews – Some three million Iranians have organ donor cards and some 10 percent have signed online consent forms for organ donation, Farahnaz Sadeq-Beigi, head of organ procurement program in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, a national research institute for tuberculosis and lung diseases, has said.

Radiofarda – Workers from the Hepco industrial complex in the central city of Arak blocked and disrupted the Iran North-South railway for several hours on May 14, demanding overdue wages and protesting conditions at their factory.

Iran-HRM – In Iran, last year alone, due to heart failure caused by lack of medication and injection of low-quality drugs, 93 thalassemia patients have died.

Iran-HRM – A city official in Ahwaz said that skin diseases and hepatitis have increased due to a decrease in the quality of drinking water as a result of the mixing of water and sewage in some poverty stricken areas in Ahwaz.

Radiofarda – Nearly one quarter of Iranian adults suffer from a mental illness, according a new report issued by Iran’s Health Ministry.

VOA – Iranians say prices of foreign pharmaceuticals have surged in recent weeks because of the strengthening U.S. dollar, causing hardship for the sick and inciting anger toward people seen as profiting from the situation. In Tuesday’s edition of VOA Persian’s Straight Talk call-in show, callers from inside Iran accused the government of failing to deal with the problem. The …

Iran-HRM – Referring to the observation of several cases of hepatitis A in Khuzestan Province, the head of the Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences warned about the effects of water shortages and droughts on the spread of diseases, especially waterborne diseases.

CHRI – The Iranian Parliament’s recognition of autism as a “special disease” will have positive and negative consequences for persons living with the disability in Iran according to an Iranian disability rights advocate.

CHRI – A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police fire and tear gas near the home of the faith’s spiritual leader, Nour Ali Tabandeh, in Tehran on February 19, 2018. 

PayvandNews – A scientific and technological project dubbed “IRANOME” was opened today in the Rehabilitative and Welfare Sciences University in the presence of Minister of Health Dr. Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi and vice president for Scientific and Technological Affairs.