The Iranian government’s negligence has led to the death of hundreds of medical staff. Here are the names of 112 Iranian physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers who have lost their lives to Covid-19.
Following the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran, medical staff who combat the health crisis at the frontlines were the most vulnerable people. Across the world, governments considered different methods to provide the necessary equipment and extra wages to help spare the lives of these selfless combatants.
Contrary to the world’s will to save these invaluable human resources, the autocrats in Iran did not even give meager salaries to these heroes. In Iran, physicians, nurses, healthcare workers, and hospital crews face enormous socioeconomic dilemmas in addition to the coronavirus’s hardships.
Citizens call these selfless staff “health angels.” However, the government seems to have completely forgotten these people. There has not been a week without nurses’ protests in different cities, which are occasionally suppressed by the State Security Forces (SSF).
For instance, on July 2, the SSF attacked a peaceful rally of nurses in Mashhad city, northeastern Iran, beating them with batons and electric shockers. Oppressive forces also tore up their banners and placards and even arrested a number of protesters.
Such pressure has pushed many nurses to leave the country, searching for somewhere where their services would be admired. On December 17, in an interview with Mashreq News website, Abdollah Safari, deputy chief of the Nursing Organization, admitted to nurses’ immigration due to overwhelming pressure both physically and mentally. “Negligence toward nurses’ demands diminishes their motivation… and in some cases, these indifferencies lead nurses to migrate from the country. In the long run, this issue would exacerbate the crisis of shortage of nurses in the country,” Safari said.
Meanwhile, the high number of Covid-19 fatalities among Iranian medical staff is another reflection of these noble people’s suffering. On August 2, in an interview with Sharq daily, former Science Minister and current chief of Iran’s Medical Council Mostafa Moeen revealed that the number of Covid-19 casualties among Iranian medical staff is higher than the international average. He also admitted that as of August, over 180 physicians and nurses have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus.
“Why should the casualties among our dear medical staff, whether doctors, nurses or pharmacists, be higher than the international average? Regrettably, over 180 physicians, nurses, and other irreplaceable forces of health and medicine have been martyred, and over 6,000 have contracted the disease,” Moeen said.
Recently, Maryam Hazrati, deputy chair of the Nursing Department in the Health Ministry, disclosed the mind-blowing number of nurses who have been infected with the virus. “We are still facing major issues. To this day more than 45,000 nurses have contracted the novel coronavirus,” Hazrati told the Iran Online website on December 16.
“Of the roughly 145,000 nurses across the country around 60,000 have contracted Covid-19, 6,000 are in quarantine and around 100 have lost their lives,” said the head of Nursing Apparatus Organization Mohammad Mirzabeigi on December 17.
However, neither Moeen nor Hazrati provide actual numbers. According to reports obtained from independent media and activists, as of October 20, more than 340 medical staff had died of Covid-19. Moreover, Pezeshkan [Doctors] News Channel acknowledged the rate of death among Iranian medical staff is 20 times that of other countries.
Iran: 111 Medical Staff Have Died of Coronavirus So Far, Regime Lays Off Nurses
Here are the names of 112 selfless physicians, experts, nurses, and healthcare workers who have lost their lives in Iran in the past few months:
The Late Iranian Physicians:
1- Mohammad Reza Mirza Aghaei
2- Mohammad Zare Joshaghani
3- The legend of Hassanvand Amouzad
4- Mandana Mousavi
5- Pouria Radmanesh
6- Seyed Fakhruddin Mir Hosseini
7- Habib Zakerian
8- Abbaspour
9- Hamid Saqib Majidzadeh
10- Alireza Hajati
11- Yousefnejad
12- Mirsalim is not a unit
13- Zahed Safikhani
14- Majid Alemi
15- Hossein Chizari
16- Fallah Doost culture
17- Shakir Sabah
18- Habib Zakerian
19- Mohammad Faqihi
20- Masis Mikaelian
21- Omid Javadzadegan
22- Wali Allah Hassani
23- Alireza Zamani Yekta
24- Mohammad Pahlevani
25- Abolfazl Mohammad Alizadeh
26- Farzin Rahnameh
27- Absent persimmon scissors
28- Mohammad Rasool Harfat Kar
29- Mohsen Behbahani
30- Yousef Rahbari
31- Massoud Ershadi
32- Behzad Ghaleh-Noei
33- Seyed Mohammad Hassan Kazemi Yazdi
34- Abdul Reza Rudbari
35- Ali Akbar Aghaei Babapour
36- Hashem Saeipour
37- Seyed Kamal Abu Turabi
38- Ahmad Khosravi Kharashad
39- Hamid Horfer
40- Homayoun Fayouz
41- Sadegh Abbaszadeh Zaidi
42- Shiva Faridi
43- Mohammad Salari
44- Amir Hossein Atari
45- Farhad Najafi
46- Roham Mahdavi Nia
47- Robabeh Ghaffart Tabrizi
48- Sadegh Abbaszadeh
49- Mohammad Reza Samiei
50- Omid Javadzadegan
51- Hashem Saeipour
52- Abdul Reza Rudbari
53- Seyed Mohammad Nourian
54- Babak Zarnani
55- Hossein Aghili
56- Hamid Saqebzadeh
57- Ismail Mohajerani
58- Mohammad Reza Mirza Aghaei
59- Mohammad Alizadeh
60- Mohammad Aghaei
Late Iranian Nurses:
1- Fatemeh Shafiee Moghaddam
2- Zahra Shirviyeh
3- Parvin Keyvan
4- Ali Burjis
5- Beloved of God
6- Mahnaz Salehi
7- Sahar Shahmoradi
8- Sepideh Sepidnameh
9- Ali Safarloo
10- Message of mercy
11- Enamel enjoyment
12- Haniyeh Seljuk
13- Reza Gorji
14- Zahra Bi Azar
15- Ahmad Talebi
16- Meysam Afzali
17- Kobra Bagheri
18- Mohammad Shokri
19- Zahra Rahimi Shokooh
20- Zahra Ragbar
21- Kiana Nakhaei
22- Mahmoud Porjush
- Maryam Sharafkhah
24- Assad race
25- Zahra Souri
26- Farahnaz Hassani Azar
27- Fariba Bahramnejad
28- Zarrin Raisi
29- Reza Gorji
Late Iranian Midwives:
1- Zohreh Kamalinejad
2- Somayeh Khairollahi
Late Iranian Paramedics:
1- Mehdi Farzaneh
2- Hassan Miyan Saz
3- Assistant of Mohammad Rezaei
Late Iranian Rural Nurses:
1- Mansoura Hosseini
2- Vali Nejadasad
3- Abdul Reza Weisi
4- Abdul Ghafoor Mohammadi
5- Khojam Bardi Chargzi
6- Abdul Ghafoor Mohammadi
7- Abdolreza Veisi
Late Iranian Health and Medical Experts:
1- Radiology—Saeed Shafaat
2- Anesthesia—Mansour Javidpour
3- Hygiene—Marzieh Mohammadi
4- Radiology—Hamed Mardani
5- Physiotherapy—Tahereh Rajabi
6- Physiotherapy—Asghar Issabadi
7- Physiotherapy—Soheila Zare
8- Physiotherapy—Mohsen Karimi
9- Emergency—Ali Farahani
10- Emergency—Hamzeh Moghadam
11- Medical Emergency—Behrouz Gholami
12- Laboratory Sciences—Ahmad Yalali
13- Laboratory Sciences—Maryam Sufi
14- Laboratory Sciences—Morteza Khoshoughat
15- Comprehensive Health Services Center—Ali Hajipour
Late Iranian Hospital Healthcare Staff:
1- Fatemeh Barin Kar
2- Azam Najafifard
3- Farzad Nami Kar
4- Fatemeh Meysamy
5- Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi Arfa
6- Mohammad Hossein Bagheri
7- Akbar Grossi
8- Kazem Ahmadi
