{"id":259046,"date":"2022-05-16T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T06:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=259046"},"modified":"2023-02-05T03:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T02:52:01","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-may-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-may-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 May 16, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n

UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite Serious Shortages in the Health Sector, Five Thousand Iranian Nurses Were Fired<\/h3>\n

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Mohammad Mirzabeigi, the head of the Iranian regime’s nursing organization admitted on Sunday, May 15, that 5,000 nurses had been fired in the past three months.<\/p>\n

Admitting that “there is a shortage of more than 100,000 nurses in the country”, the official, who was speaking at a press conference, acknowledged that “in the last three months, some of the 5,000 nurses working through the Covid-19 pandemic period have been promised by some universities that their contracts will be extended. But despite the planning and promises made, with Covid-19 contracting numbers dropping, the universities have stopped cooperating with the nurses.”<\/p>\n

“We must have at least four nurses per 1,000 people,” Mirzabeigi said of the huge gap with international standards. “For every bed in a hospital, we should have 6 nurses around the clock, but we have limited ourselves to 2.5 and now we have 1.2 nurses for a 24-hour cycle. We should have at least three nurses per doctor, but the number of nurses is much less.”<\/p>\n

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Calls for Regime Change in Northern\u00a0Iran<\/h3>\n

While the uprising over the soaring prices of bread and other food staples has reached several provinces in various corners of the country, the northern city of Fuman in Gilan Province witnessed a new incident of loudspeakers calling for regime change.<\/p>\n

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May 15 – Fuman, northern #Iran<\/a>
11:00 pm local time
Anti-regime slogans aired in public
"Death to high prices\/Khamenei\/Raisi!"
"Mullahs get lost!"
"We want neither the Shah, nor the mullahs! Damn them both!"#IranProtests<\/a> #\u0627\u0639\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0636\u0627\u062a_\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0633\u0631\u06cc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nSucxZk2cu<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n