As Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 14,200 over the weekend, 78 healthcare workers were confirmed to have died in Iran’s coronavirus crisis.

The deaths of the Iranian healthcare workers from Covid-19 have shed light on severe lack of necessary medical items and standard protective gear in under equipped hospitals across the country.

Even before the coronavirus outbreak, Iran stood way below the international standards with a severe shortage of physicians, nurses, and medical staff. So, as the outbreak is sweeping across the country, Iran’s doctors and nurses as well as the other medical staff are going through extraordinary pressure.

According to the head of the Industry and Mine Organization in Kerman, 41% of those infected with COVID-19 in the southeastern province are healthcare workers. Mehdi Hosseini Nejad said that the reason behind the high infection rate was a problem in “providing masks, alcohol and gloves” for healthcare workers in Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak.

Healthcare workers in Gilan, northern Iran, which has one of the highest COVID-19 fatality rates in the country, also face a severe shortage of protective gear and equipment.

On March 7, a member of the board of directors of the Mashhad Nursing Organization said that nurses in several hospitals did not have adequate protective gear.

“Nurses in some hospitals are faced with a lack of protective gear including medical gowns, N95 masks, gloves and disinfectants,” Javad Tavakoli told the state-run YJC website.

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The names of frontline staff who died Iran’s coronavirus crisis have been compiled by Iran Human Rights Monitor, as follows:

Dr. Abdullah Abbasi, infectious disease specialist, Gorgan

Dr. Morteza Vojdan, general practitioner, Mashhad

Dr. Ali Mahmoudkhan Shirazi, general practitioner, Shiraz

Dr. Hamidreza Mahini, general practitioner, Pakdasht

Dr. Hossein Johari, ENT specialist, Qom

Dr. Seyyed Mozaffar Rabi’e, anesthesiologist, Babol

Dr. Esmail Yazdi, surgeon, Tehran

Dr. Samad Babazadeh, general practitioner, Babol

Dr. Taghi Ahari Farshchi, pediatrician, Tabriz

Dr. Gholamali Manavian, general practitioner, Sari

Dr. Shirin Rouhani Rad, general practitioner, Pakdasht

Dr. Surena Mirmirani, psychologist, Amol

Dr. Raola Ragutam, internal specialist, Saveh

Dr. Mehdi Variji, general practitioner, Tehran

Dr. Soheil Kianfar, urologist, Rasht

Dr. Iraj Ebrahimi Nezhad, general practitioner, Babol

Dr. Abbas Tousan, ENT specialist and surgeon, Babol

Dr. Afshar Amiri, psychiatrist, Tehran

Dr. Vahid Irvani, psychiatrist, Tehran

Dr. Habibullah Peiravi, specialist in vascular surgery, Tehran

Dr. Saeid Azizi, ophthalmologist, Zabol

Dr. Reza Kouchaki Nia, ediatrician, Rasht

Dr. Hamid Lotfi, orthopedist, Rasht

Dr. Siamak Dayushli, pediatrician, Anzali

Dr. Mostafa Samadi, ediatrician, Babol

Dr. Mohammad Ali Rabi’e, general practitioner, Gilan

Dr. Mohammad Mohammadi, general practitioner, Rasht

Dr. Ardeshir Shiran, general practitioner, Isfahan

Dr. Musa Fath Abadi, emergency medicine specialist, Tehran

Dr. Vahid Monsef, emergency medicine specialist, Rasht

Dr. Farid Niruyi, surgeon, Babol

Dr. Seyyed Yousef Musavi, general practitioner, Golestan

Dr. Mohammad Bakhshali Zadeh, general practitioner, Rasht

Dr. Arastu Rostamnezhad, Pakdasht

Dr. Nilufar Esmail Beigi, genetal practitioner, Tehran

Dr. Hamidreza Zeinali, pharmacist, Tehran

Dr. Abdulshakur Hazhir Amiri, pharmacist, Rasht

Dr. Hamidreza Davoudi, pharmacist, Babol

Dr. Javad Jalalinia, anesthesiologist, Babol

Dr. Saeid Momeni, laboratory science expert, Roudsar

Tahereh Esmaili, nurse, Qom

Ahmad Soleimani Doust, healthcare worker, Qom

Mohammad Ghader Noruz Mehr, healthcare worker, Rasht

Amir Reza Honarkar, physiotherapist, Tehran

Zabihullah Kaviani, healthcare worker, Borujen

Iman Moein Zadeh, nurse, Astaneh Ashrafieh

Ghorbanali Hosseinzadeh, nurse, Kashan

Tahmineh Adibi, nurse, Anzali

Reza Poursaki, nurse, Abadan

Reza Rusta, healthcare worker, Tehran

Hanieh Edalati, healthcare worker, Takestan

Anusheh Beikian, obstetrician, Rasht

Mohsen Khadem, operating room nurse experts, Kashan

Roghieh Ronaghi, healthcare worker, Some’ Sara

Seyyedeh Azemat Mousavi, obstetrician, Sari

Nahid Noshad, nurse, Gilan

Shahrouz Karimian, nurse, Tehran

Hassan Arbab, healthcare worker, Mashhad

Banou Khoshgoftar, healthcare worker, Fouman

Esmaeil Bakhshi Pour, healthcare worker, Rasht

Zehtab, healthcare worker, Rasht

Seyyed Al Hosseini, healthcare worker, Rasht

Izad Panahi, nurse, Shiraz

Molud Jafari, nurse, Tehran

Ali Sheikh Moradi, nurse, Rasht

Narjes Khanali Zadeh, nurse, Lahijan

Ramin Azizifar, nurse, Tehran

Gholamreza Vosughi Kia, nurse, Rasht

Mohammad Kazem Golresan, laboratory expert, Yazd

Sa’adat Shakibayi, nurse, Yasouj

Nader Hosseinpour, healthcare worker, Lahijan

Kamran Bayat, surgery room nurse, Tehran

Mahmoud Shamsuddini, healthcare worker, Yazd