7500 Iranian nurses became disabled during the Corona virus

Officials of the Nursing System Organization, the Ministry of Health and the Nursing Home say that the outbreak of Corona in Iran has killed more than 150 nurses since February 2018, more than 120,000 nurses have fallen ill as a result of caring for Corona patients, and 7,500 of the infected nurses have died due to The severity of disease complications have reached the state of disability.

During the last three years and following the deadly waves of corona virus in the country, the officials of the nursing system organization and nursing homes emphasized that in addition to the lethality of virus strains, the lack of nurses in the special care department and the care and hospitalization department of corona patients is an effective factor in increasing the death of patients. Because a nurse has more duties than she can handle, physical and mental fatigue will definitely lead to defects in providing services, in addition to the reduction of physical strength and mental weakness due to the high volume of responsibilities and duties, the nurse is susceptible to various diseases. has been doing

The lack of nurses during this period was such that according to reports received from some provinces and cities, the care of 25 corona patients was assigned to one nurse and in some hospitals of Tehran, one nurse was responsible for the care of 15 corona patients. The number of nurses per hospital bed in the country is about 0.8 people per bed and in disadvantaged cities such as Zahedan 0.5 people per bed, while the international standard is 4 nurses per bed.

The first nurse who fell victim to Corona in Iran was Narjes Khanalizadeh. A 24-year-old nurse at Milad Lahijan Hospital, who had her first nursing experience at Imam Hospital in Tehran and the Inpatient Center for Infectious Diseases. It took only 2 days from the onset of symptoms to Narjes’ death. After the death of Narjes, the nurses of Milad Hospital said and wrote: “March 4, 2018, he fainted and fell to the ground while attending to patients at his workplace. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital due to pulmonary complications and shortness of breath. He died in the afternoon of March 6, 2018 in Milad Lahijan Hospital.