Health and Hygiene

Radiofarda – A newspaper close to the Rouhani administration says a large number of nurses in Iran have lost their jobs during February, March and April as the income of private hospitals have been declining. Oddly enough, this is happening while the coronavirus outbreak is escalating in Iran according to Health Ministry officials, and President Hassan Rouhani resists continued restrictions …

Radiofarda – The scientific basis of medicine can be traced to Hippocrates’ rejection of disease as having a divine origin. His work has been dismissed before – by the feudal kings of fourteenth century Europe – and is repudiated again today by elements of the Iranian regime. Long forgotten leaders of church and state once directed people toward prayer to …

Iran-HRM – A number of prisoners including 50 political prisoners held at Urmia Central Prison have been infected with the coronavirus. The 50 political prisoners were held at ward 15 of the prison. The names of 11 of these prisoners are as follows:1. Behnam Foruzandedel2. Mohammad Hossein Irajnia3. Akbar Kamel4. Omid Afrasiabi5. Ahmad Manuchehri6. Karim Ashrafi7. Hojjat Nouri8. Hamid Moazzam9. …

RFL/RE – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will lead the world in providing foreign assistance to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, even as some allies have expressed concerns over Washington’s tactics to acquire equipment for its own needs and its failure to ease sanctions during the pandemic. Pompeo’s comments also come a day after …

Amnesty – Around 36 prisoners in Iran are feared to have been killed by security forces after the use of lethal force to control protests over COVID-19 safety fears, Amnesty International has learned. In recent days, thousands of prisoners in at least eight prisons around the country have staged protests over fears of contracting the coronavirus, sparking deadly responses from …

CHRI – Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and transferred to solitary confinement without his medication after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, his brother told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). In an interview with CHRI, …

CHRI – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) interim guidance on how to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, and made it available online for free use and dissemination in its unaltered form. “Iranian officials should immediately mitigate the risk of prison outbreaks by releasing peaceful individuals who …

kodoom.com – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose own spouse is infected with coronavirus, while announcing the extension of coronavirus-related quarantine in this country, quoted verses of the renowned Iranian poet Saadi in order to inspire unity, solidarity and empathy among people in these difficult circumstances: “The strength of society comes from being able to count on each other. According to Persian …

PayvandNews – This time, medical professionals have gone far to help patients afflicted by the coronavirus, so the least we can do is supporting them and paying tribute to those putting themselves at risk battling against a dangerous enemy which is not even visible. A group of Iranian medical staff helping COVID-9 patients Observed on April 7, World Health Day is the …

Radiofarda – Just how sick is Iran, really? As the coronavirus swept across the world throughout the month of March, the Islamic Republic quickly emerged as one of the key global hotspots for the disease. A month into the worldwide pandemic, however, the actual depths of the Iranian regime’s coronavirus crisis remain the subject of heated debate. To hear regime …