Samin Sedghi Zadeh, 29, Cremona
Zadeh has been working at a hospital in the hard-hit northern city of Cremona for the last two weeks. He left his comfortable job as a general practitioner in the private sector, after the government sought urgent help from medical professionals.

"A year ago when I graduated, I made a promise to make myself useful in the face of crisis," he said. "Being closed-off in the comfort of an office is not helping this national emergency."
He says Iran's response to the emergency has been weaker than Italy's, but countries in the West should also have been better prepared.

Zadeh said that although Italy has one of the best health care systems in the world, he hopes it will also learn some lessons from the crisis.