The Secretary-General of the Nurses’ House reported that in the past month, 3 nurses died in their sleep due to overwork.
The Secretary-General of the country’s Nurses’ House stated that in the past month, 3 of our nurses died in their sleep, and the cause of death was Karoshi syndrome and death due to overwork. Today, a nurse working in our hospitals is exhausted, unmotivated, and worn out. If they do not emigrate, they quit and change their profession.
Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, the Secretary-General of the country’s Nurses’ House, said that in the past month, 3 of our nurses died in their sleep, and the cause of death was Karoshi syndrome and death due to overwork. Today, a nurse working in our hospitals is exhausted, unmotivated, and worn out. If they do not emigrate, they quit and change their profession. I am not in a position to give advice, but with the current conditions, the emigration of nurses is inevitable. If I were in the nurses’ situation, I would leave Iran too.
He further stated that nurses in the United States earn between 4,000 to 7,000 dollars, and a nurse receives an average salary of 6,000 dollars for a single shift in a hospital. In Iran, not only are we facing a shortage of nurses, but due to the meager salaries, a nurse is forced to work two shifts. When the responsibility of 25 patients is given to one nurse during a night shift, it is natural for a patient to die because the night shift nurse is the same one who worked morning and afternoon shifts at another hospital. In the U.S., with two hours of overtime, the error rate increased by 14 percent. In Iran, with 36 hours of overtime, how much will the error rate increase? It is not even countable.
