The Ministry of Health openly announced its opposition to the new uniform for female nurses and hospital staff presented on Friday, June 9, 2017, at the School of Medical Sciences of Zahedan University, southeastern Iran.
The new uniform consists of a black head-to-toe veil (chador) worn over a white manteaux and a black head-to-neck cover (maghna’eh).
Mohammad Mirza Beigi, deputy for nurses’ affairs at the Ministry of Health on June 10, 2017, said, “The new nursing uniform presented at the Medical Sciences School of Zahedan, contradicts scientific and specialized criterion for the uniforms of the medical staff and nurses.” (The state-run ISNA news agency, June 10, 2017)