In at this time’s version of Wednesday, January twenty seventh, a Tehran newspaper as soon as once more addressed the difficulty of “suicide” among the many medical workers and wrote that within the final 10 months, 16 medical assistants dedicated “suicide”.
“Etimad” newspaper printed this information, quoting Babak Shekarchi, Vice President of Education and Research of the Medical System Organization, and wrote that solely three such circumstances occurred final week.
This report emphasizes that since October of this 12 months, there have been about 14 circumstances of “early loss of life” and no less than “suspect suicide” amongst residents or docs who’re going by their plan interval.
This “Trust” report talked about a examine concerning the well being standing of residents and wrote: “23% of medical assistants had extreme to very extreme despair.”
On this foundation, it was introduced that about 25% of individuals had “extreme anxiousness” to “very extreme” and almost 34% of them had “extreme stress” to “very extreme”.
With the rise within the variety of suicides among the many medical workers, a particular working group was convened on January 20 with the presence of the top of the medical system, a consultant of the Ministry of Health, the top of the Scientific Association of Psychiatrists and a lot of specialists.
In this assembly, it was said that the examination of the psychological standing of 253 specialised medical assistants reveals that the speed of suicide within the resident inhabitants is between 1.3 and 5 occasions greater than in different teams.
In a letter to the President, the Scientific Association of Psychiatrists of Iran has additionally requested the formation of a committee of specialists who’ve the “obligatory powers” for “quick intervention” on this matter.
This affiliation has despatched two letters to the Ministry of Health within the final 4 months, each of which remained unanswered.
Numerous civil activists within the our on-line world have positioned the Ministry of Health’s lack of consideration to this subject together with the Ministry’s “particular” emphasis on coping with the “disobedience” of workers and therapy personnel.
The subject of accelerating suicide charges amongst Iranian medical workers members, particularly residents, has been within the information for the previous few years and after the double stress placed on them by the Corona epidemic.