Immigration of 10 thousand Iranian doctors in just 2 years

Doctor Hossein Ali Shahriari, the head of the health and treatment commission of the Islamic Council, warned about the shortage of doctors in the country and said: “During the last 2 years, 10,000 people from the country’s medical community emigrated, and many provinces are facing a severe shortage of doctors, especially surgeons, and this The problem can put the country in big trouble in the coming years.

Many provinces of the country don’t even have a cardiovascular surgeon or they only have one surgeon! Or surgery on a one-two-day-old baby is not the work of any doctor and there must be a specialist in this field. But we don’t have it.

Referring to the fact that we do not have any candidates for some university fields, Shahriari emphasized: For example, in the very important field of cardiovascular surgery, which is the country’s need, the number of candidates who want to become a specialist in this field has decreased. Is. Also, there are very few candidates for the fields of pediatric surgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, pediatrics, and internal medicine. Because people do not have the motivation to acquire specialization and super-specialization. Of course, we have not made a good policy to motivate these people.