Medical charity MSF deploys coronavirus treatment centre in Iran
14:48, 22/03/2020, SundayU: Update: 14:51, 22/03/2020, Sunday
REUTERS
File photo :The logo of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) is seen on the back of an employee at the international medical humanitarian organisation MSF logistique centre in Merignac near Bordeaux, France, December 6, 2018
"The size of the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran is particularly worrying," MSF says
Medical charity MSF is setting up a 50-bed emergency centre to treat severe COVID-19 cases in Iran, the French organisation said on Sunday.
A team of nine MSF intensive care medics will staff the facility on the grounds of the Amin hospital in the central province of Isfahan, the charity said, as Iran grapples with the worst outbreak of coronavirus in the region.
"The size of the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran is particularly worrying," MSF said, citing the country's 20,610 cases and 1,556 deaths as of March 20, according to official figures.
In recent days, Tehran freed a French academic in a prisoner swap that also saw the release of an Iranian engineer held in France.
