[custom_adv] persian's health workers are on the front lines of the country's battle with the coronavirus, which according to official figures has claimed the lives of 234 persians and infected more than 7,000. [custom_adv] But many of them lack protective wear to keep them safe while treating infected patients.The situation is said to be particularly dire for health-care workers in the northern province of Gilan, one of homeland's coronavirus epicenters, where at least five doctors and three nurses have died recently of the COVID-19 disease. [custom_adv] Its victims include Vahid Monsef, a doctor who specialized in emergency medicine and an associate professor at Gilan's University of Medical Sciences, who died on March 9, according to homeland's semiofficial ISNA news agency. He had been helping treat COVID-19 patients at the time. [custom_adv] Narjes Khanalizadeh, one of the first nurses in Iran to fall victim to the outbreak, was also from Gilan. The 25-year-old Khanalizadeh died in February after contracting the coronavirus from patients she had been treating in a hospital in the city of Lahijan. [custom_adv] "We are in desperate need of N95 masks right now, and we ran out of them yesterday," the head of the Gilan Nursing Organization, Mohammad Delsuz, told the reformist Shargh daily on March 9. [custom_adv] "[Nurses] are now using masks that have been made at home and are not safe," Delsuz said, adding that masks and latex gloves were among the most pressing needs of nurses and other medical workers in Gilan. [custom_adv] persian nurses and doctors have reportedly been dancing as a break from the intensity of dealing with the coronavirus outbreak in the country, according to a video shared by Twitter users. [custom_adv] homeland is fighting to combat the worst outbreak of coronavirus outside of its origin country, China, with medical staff stretched as over 2,300 people test positive for the deadly COVID-19 virus. On Tuesday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered the armed forces to assist health authorities, suggesting the crisis is severe despite his words that it is “not that big of a deal.” [custom_adv] In a video shared by persian Twitter users, medical staff can be seen dancing in hospitals while dressed in face masks and preventative body suits. [custom_adv] “This is how persian doctors and nurses keep up their spirit while fighting with #coronavirus,” said Sara Vakhshouri, energy market, policy & security analyst, Founder & President of SVBEI, Adjunct Professor at the IWP. [custom_adv] The footage is not the first dancing video to surface from homeland during the outbreak. On Saturday, persian female students from a girls’ school in capital decided to dance in a video to get the regime’s attention to take more precautionary measures against the coronavirus outbreak, including the suspension of schools and universities, according to the activist that shared the video online. [custom_adv] The video was sent by one of the schoolgirls to persian activist prominent persian journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad. The girls can be seen dancing in an empty classroom to a 50 Cent hit song while wearing face masks. [custom_adv] the most critical situation is in the northern province of Gilan, one of the epicentres of the epidemic, where five doctors and three nurses recently died from Covid-19. The victims include Vahid Monsef, a doctor specializing in emergencies and associated with the local medical university, who passed away on 9 March. [custom_adv] Narjes Khanalizadeh, one of the first nurses to succumb to the new coronavirus, was also from Gilan. The woman died in February after contracting the disease from patients being treated at the Lahijan hospital. [custom_adv] Mohammad Delsuz, head of Gilan's nurse union, confirms the "desperate need for N95 masks", whose stocks ended on March 9th. Field operators now use "homemade masks," he adds, "that don't meet safety standards." In addition to the masks, there is an extreme need for "hundreds" of latex gloves.
