Zahedan University of Medical Sciences

Visiting Imam Reza (PBUH) Comprehensive Health Services Center on the occasion of Mental Health Week, Dr. Hashemi Shahri Chancellor of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences thanked valuable services of the primary health care clinical psychologists and stated that in the suburbs of the cities and in the comprehensive health services centers desirable counselling services are currently being rendered to our citizens and he urged the psychologists to monitor the population under coverage, laid emphasis on the promotion of optimal and effective counselling with the aim of awareness raising, change in the attitudes, and promotion of mental health of our people.

Zahedan University of Medical Sciences has launched an active TB screening program targeting Afghan refugees in September 2020. The program will be conducted with the participation of 92 screening teams comprising Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) along with disease prevention and control experts from Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. This national project is supported by the Global Fund TB in collaboration with Iran’s Ministry of Health and is being simultaneously implemented in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The program has been planned to be implemented during one month time, and the target group of this project is 70,000 Afghan refugees with legal residential permits.

Healthcare workers are on the front lines of the global effort to care for patients with COVID-19, while putting themselves at risk for infection. More than 170 Iranian physicians, nurses, assistants, technicians, EMTs, public healthcare workers, orderlies, volunteers, and more — fresh on the job or retired, have already died, across the country.

The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978, which was endorsed by the WHO and its member state, emerged as a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health. The declaration marked a global recognition that health and access to primary health care (PHC) are fundamental human rights and it identified PHC as the key to the attainment of the goal of "Health for All by the year 2000".

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In response to the coronavirus disease pandemic, Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education launched a National Campaign to fight COVID-19 at the beginning of March 2020.

In pictures: Iran deputy Health Minister, Dr. Iraj Harirchi visiting coronavirus disease response measures at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences

In Pictures: Healthcare workers in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences On the Front Line of the Coronavirus Pandemic Response

Zahedan University of Medical Sciences immediately expanded surveillance to detect COVID-19 transmission chains, by testing all patients with atypical pneumonias, conducting screening in some patients with upper respiratory illnesses and/or recent COVID-19 exposure.

Islamic Republic of Iran is a committed and responsible member of international health organizations and International Health Regulations (IHR) are carefully implemented and monitored at all Sistan and Baluchestan Province border crossings.