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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.

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In Pictures: Zahedan University of Medical Sciences staff and Community Health Volunteers performing Polio Vaccination Campaign in harsh weather conditions, January 2020