NCRI – The Minister of Health in Hassan Rouhani’s government, Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, admitted to a shortage of medical specialists in the country, according to a report on Friday, September 16 by Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the regime’s terrorist Revolutionary Guards Quds Force.
“Only 10 percent of the country’s need for medical specialists is provided, and contrary to what is assumed, Iran is among the poorest countries in terms of medical specialists and super specialty doctors per capita,” Ghazizadeh Hashemi said.
Hossein Sharghi, a health economics expert, told Tasnim: “The index of doctors per capita, with respect to the population (one doctor for every thousand people) in each country is measured according to various relevancies and titles. In advanced and developed countries, the figure is 3 or higher. Ironically, the index of doctors per capita in countries like Cuba and Qatar, reaches 7, but the indexes in Iran, in the best case, is 0.5, a figure that places Iran among the poorest countries in terms of medical specialists and super specialty doctors per capita.”
According to Sharghi, among the Middle East and Central Asia countries, the highest index of doctors per capita is Qatar, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Lebanon.
