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NCRI – As part of each country\u2019s infrastructures, hospitals and quality of their services indicate in some ways how developed each country and its healthcare services are. In Iran, however, hospitals and the quality of their services are in a horrible state, a fact acknowledged by regime\u2019s own officials as well.<\/p>\n
A serious problem in this regard is related to hospital buildings. Many of Iran\u2019s hospital buildings have fallen into disrepair, so much so that in some cases there\u2019s a danger of them collapsing so that it would be quite unsafe to stay inside. The situation is so terrible that even regime officials and media are forced to acknowledge parts of this reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany hospitals built over the past years lack even the basic structural design requirements. Many of them were not supposed to be hospitals, but are now used for presenting healthcare services. Well, it\u2019s no surprise to see them lacking even the least engineering standards for hospitals\u201d, confesses Amir Saki, Construction Manager in Rouhani\u2019s Healthcare Ministry, in his interview with state TV last month<\/p>\n
Also in this regard, a member of regime Parliament\u2019s Social Committee \u2018Mohammad Vahdati\u2019 pointed out in his interview with Parliament\u2019s news agency that many of country\u2019s healthcare centers and hospitals have reached the end of their useful life years ago, adding \u201cunfortunately, most hospitals are dilapidated and their renovation is an absolute necessity. Besides, such healthcare centers lack the necessary safety measures.\u201d (Parliament\u2019s news agency, June 28, 2017)<\/p>\n
Earlier, regime\u2019s Deputy Healthcare Minister \u2018Mohammad Aghajani\u2019 had said \u201c60 percent of our hospitals are in a state of disrepair, which should be regarded as a serious threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
The critical conditions of Iran\u2019s dilapidated hospitals are despite the fact that Iran is a natural-disaster-prone country, with more than 90 percent of its population being subject to earthquake and widespread flooding.<\/p>\n
Regime\u2019s Health Minsiter \u2018Seyed-Hassan Ghazizadeh-Hashemi\u2019 recently acknowledged that the capital\u2019s hospitals are not resistant to earthquake. While confirming the minister\u2019s remarks, Homayoun Hashemi, member of Parliament\u2019s Healthcare Committee, pointed out that the studies show that many public hospitals date back to 1950\u2019s and 60\u2019s, adding \u201crenovation of such hospitals must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Besides, many of such hospitals need to be completely wrecked and rebuilt.\u201d (Parliament\u2019s news agency, August 14, 2017)
In addition to dilapidated hospitals, the conditions of hospital beds are also not appropriate, so that many of them are out of service.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are short of 46 thousand hospital beds\u201d, says Health Ministry\u2019s Construction Manager \u2018Amir Saki\u2019, adding \u201cand of the available beds, 50 thousand are out of service, meaning we need somewhat between 90 to 100 thousand hospital beds so we can replace the outdated ones and develop our healthcare services. (Regime\u2019s Khabar TV network, July 14, 2017)<\/p>\n
The average age of a hospital bed in developed countries, European ones for instance, is 7-10 years. In Iran however, with age of hospitals being 35 and higher, hospital beds are in such terrible conditions that even regime officials have been forced to acknowledge part of this mess. Currently, Iran is ranked among the lowest in the Middle East in terms of the number of hospital beds, with its situation being catastrophic even compared to such countries as Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
While Iranian patients have to spend their times of illness in such places, the mullahs\u2019 regime is plundering country\u2019s wealth, pouring them right into the pockets of regime leaders and officials or spending them over regime\u2019s warmongering policies and exporting terrorism and reactionarism to regional countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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