Iran rejected coronavirus aid provided by Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization, which had sent a team of medical staff and a field hospital to Iran.
"Since the national mobilization for confronting corona is ongoing, and the medical capabilities of Iranian Armed Forces are entirely at its service, Iran does not need hospitals established by foreigners and such presence is irrelevant," an adviser to Iran’s health minister, Alireza Vahhabzadeh, tweeted on Monday.
Iranian fire department staffs disinfect the public places against coronavirus at night using machinery and mobile pumps, March 16, 2020, in Tehran, Iran.On Sunday, the official website of the Doctors without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières stated that a"team of nine emergency and intensive care unit doctors" along with logisticians to run the unit were sent to Isfahan, the second worst-affected province of the country after the capital city of Tehran.
However, those who are in favor of the decision believe that the MSF help package was too small to cover needs of the country, saying it was meant to cover up the bigger damages the U.S. sanctions have caused for Iran’s health system. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in the capital Tehran, March 22, 2020.
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