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Decades of privatization have turned healthcare into a luxury out of reach for millions of Iranians.
When Masoud Pezeshkian, an experienced cardiac surgeon and former health minister, ran for Iran’s presidency in 2024, he promised to enforce a long-standing, long-ignored law capping patients’ out-of-pocket share of overall medical expens...
Women’s work in the unofficial sector helps prop up the economy while they reap meager rewards.
Their numbers are in the millions, and they play an essential role in keeping the Iranian economy afloat in hard times. Yet most of the women working under informal terms of employment are poorly paid, routinely exploited, and largely ignored ...
Low salaries and gender discrimination are driving Iran’s nurses from their jobs, impairing an already wobbly healthcare system.
Burnout, sexual harassment, and unsustainably poor pay. These are just some of the grievances voiced by Iran’s predominantly female nursing workforce—and why many now say they are leaving the profession despite...