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On 26th<\/sup> December 2018, a large group of nurses held an assembly in front of the Iranian Majles (parliament) in Tehran to protest their working conditions, employment issues and risks to the public’s health.<\/p>\n According to reports, the health system is short of 200,000 nurses and currently only 331,000 are working. The nurses said that the authorities try to implement new rules and impose new contracts to \u201c aggressively exploit\u201d them.<\/p>\n It has been reported that the number of employed nurses has been reduced by 10% as a result of the new rules and contracts.<\/p>\n Whilst the population is growing and the numbers of elderly and those in need of medical treatment have risen, the authorities are cutting down on nurses. Essential services such as CCU, Accident and Emergency, and ICU are short of nurses and the lives of patients are at risk.<\/p>\n In the protest, the nurses demanded that more nurses be employed, raising of healthcare standards in hospitals, an end to compulsory overtime work, an increase in the wages of nurses to above the poverty line, and an end to discrimination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #WPIranNews #FightForLife #NursesProtest #HospitalsInIran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"