{"id":217363,"date":"2020-04-28T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=217363"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:49:31","slug":"iranian-regime-continues-to-cover-up-coronavirus-crisis-by-silencing-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iranian-regime-continues-to-cover-up-coronavirus-crisis-by-silencing-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime Continues to Cover up Coronavirus Crisis by Silencing Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nurses, doctors and medical staff in Iran have made great sacrifices against the coronavirus, while their basic rights have been violated by the mullahs’ regime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nurses in Iran have been instructed b<\/span>y\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>regime<\/span>\u00a0to remain silent about the Coronavirus outbreak and they have been ordered to attribute COVID-19 deaths to \u201cacute respiratory distress syndrome\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coronavirus outbreak<\/a> has hit the city of Tehran hard<\/span>\u00a0with there being more than\u00a0<\/span>6<\/span>,000 deaths in the capital alone.\u00a0<\/span>Eyewitnesses at a hospital in Tehran have said that there appears to be an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, but that the\u00a0<\/span>regime\u2019s officials have\u00a0<\/span>forbidden<\/span>\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>hospital\u00a0<\/span>from mentioning Coronavirus. Two nurses from this hospital –\u00a0<\/span>Milad Hospital<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 were fired after they informed several patients and their families that they had contracted the virus.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It has also been reported that the protective equipment and supplies, including hazmat suits, that had been available to medical workers in this hospital have been taken away. This is to keep up the pretence that there are no cases of Coronavirus in the hospital. This is shocking because medical workers are being made even more vulnerable to contracting the virus. Thirty-five nurses have already contracted COVID-19 at the hospital.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is believed that\u00a0the vast majority of\u00a0patients in this hospital are there because they have Coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span>The numbers increase every day, yet there are plans to dismiss 80 nurses with the regime saying that this is due to downsizing.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The working conditions for medical workers in Iran have been less than satisfactory for years but this Coronavirus outbreak has exacerbated all existing problems. The medical workers across Iran, especially those in emergency departments, are putting their own lives at risk, and that of their families, to treat the many Coronavirus patients that they receive every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Commemorating the selfless physicians and nurses, and other victims of the #Coronavirus<\/a> catastrophe in #Iran<\/a> #IransAngels<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Y2fOJViL9S<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n