Officials and lawmakers are warning that Iran may be forced to hire foreign doctors as Iranian physicians are emigrating to other countries in droves.
Dr. Mohammad Raeeszadeh, head of the Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, recently warned in a speech at a national gathering on the occasion of Physicians’ Day that wrong government policies are causing disillusionment among young medical practitioners and could lead to a wave of emigration or change of career among them.
Experts in Iran and abroad told the media that the brain drain in the past decades, beginning with the 1980-88 war with Iraq, has been accelerated by a lack of social freedoms in the clerical-dominated system, political upheavals, deterioration of the economy, and government repression.
Source: Iran International