Iran continues to grapple with a worsening scarcity of nurses, with its medical system in a state of collapse, with every nurse serving as many as 35 sufferers at any given time.
An investigation performed by the every day Donya-e-Ektesad has revealed the continued disaster engulfing Iran within the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. As the virus wave subsided, many nurses misplaced their jobs. A scarcity of docs and nurses is placing the lives of sufferers in want of life-saving remedy in danger.
In August, Abbas Ebadi, Deputy Minister of Nursing on the Ministry of Health, reported that roughly 100,000 new nurses had been desperately wanted to alleviate the rising disaster. To put the present nursing scarcity into perspective, Ebadi mentioned Iran’s whole nursing workforce consists of 215,000 nurses.
Global medical tips suggest a nurse-to-patient ratio of roughly 2.5 to attain optimum care. However, Iran solely has 0.8 nurses to workers every hospital mattress. In some areas, this ratio has plummeted even additional to 0.6, a major departure from worldwide norms.
The nursing scarcity is additional exacerbated by components comparable to retirement, resignation, and migration, resulting in a decline within the nursing workforce. Alarmingly, a mean of 5 to 6 nurses go away the nation day by day, and roughly 100 to 150 nurses migrate from Iran each month, making the nursing scarcity even worse.