"Iran: Some Nurses Are Homeless and Sleep in Their Cars " 22 February 2025

Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam, the Secretary-General of Iran’s Home of Nurse, says that some nurses in Tehran are homeless and, to avoid paying rent, work multiple shifts and sleep in their personal cars during rest hours...
...According to World Health Organization standards, there should be three nurses per 1,000 people to prevent increased patient mortality. However, he added that in recent years, Iran has set a record low, with only “one and a half nurses” per 1,000 people...
...According to human rights media outlets and some professional nurse news channels, nurses in several other cities in Iran have also staged protests in recent days...The channel reported that these nurses gathered to protest against “delayed payment of wages,” “low salary levels,” and “overtime payments and service tariff issues.”...
Meanwhile, on August 31, 2024, Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of the Iranian regime, announced that he had received permission from the regime’s Supreme Leader to withdraw funds from the National Development Fund to settle the healthcare workers’ debts...Nurses protested both the neglect of their demands and the harsh working conditions, including “mandatory overtime with extremely low wages, exhausting work under insults and threats” in their workplaces. According to them, this situation has seen “no change” so far...
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