Iran: 1/4th of population suffering from mental disorders

Shocking mental disorder numbers, 1,200 disabled people in one town

 

Private hospital in Tehran

23% of Iran’s population is suffering from mental disorders

More than 23% of Iran’s population is suffering from mental disorders, said director general of the Psychological Health Bureau in Iran’s Health Ministry.

“Social disorders today is one of the most important health problems faced in our society, and currently based on pathologic reports around 23.6% of the country’s population is suffering from some type of mental disorder,” said Ahmad Hajebi, taking part in inaugurating ceremony of a mental center in the city of Ghouchan.

“… Pathology reviews conducted amongst the population from 15 to 64 years of age in this country shows around 12.5 million are suffering from such problems. In the first year of plans to tackle this problem only 4.2 million people were able to take advantage of the services provided,” he added, referring to the spread of mental disorders.

Iran: budget for medical care of thousands of cancer children disappears

Former officials involved in previous governments in Iran have unveiled documents showing how they stole huge amounts of money through fraud during their time in office.

Hrana news agency unveiled this new report and it remains unclear why such numbers have yet to be revealed or published, and who no government official has said a single word about this matter.

Ahmad Tavakoli, former economic advisor to then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Many trillion of rials of government money was to spent on medical care for cancer and ill children, and those suffering from incurable illnesses. However, all of it suddenly disappeared!”

The silent torment of Iran’s “butterfly children”

A new photo report from Iran provides a shocking glimpse into the extraordinary suffering that some impoverished children south of Kerman, south-east Iran, are facing.

These children are suffering from Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), known commonly as butterfly disease, and their suffering is ever greater as a result of lack of proper healthcare provided to them by the mullahs’ regime.

The photos have been published in a number of state-run websites, including the Fars news agency, since April 5.
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Iran: Let’s do something for our cities’ environments!

We will be expecting you

The city of Tehran is considered one of the most polluted cities in the world, and most reports from inside the regime have described conditions in this city as many times more difficult than tolerable norms.

In this regard a group of environment activists in Tehran made a call to hold their April 1^st gathering in Baharestan Square:

On April 1^st we will gather at Baharestan Square in a rally for the environment. We will be in reconciliation with our trees, the jungles and all the greens.

We hope for more secure cities, with less smoke and trash. We hope for an Iran full of children laughing.

We have chosen Baharestan Square, with the name of spring (Bahar in Persian), the name of life being reborn. Let’s hope a bill will be adopted in support of the greens in the most important building of this square.

We will be expecting you

A group of environment activists in Tehran

Why Are Juveniles Committing Suicide in Iran?

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Eleven year old Foad Hanafi died of asthma in Ahwaz, center of the south western county of Khuzestan, on February 23^rd, just a few days before Iran’s sham elections.

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