Zahedan University of Medical Sciences begins polio vaccination campaign, March 2018
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences with support from Iran’s Ministry of Health launched a one week oral polio vaccination campaign in February 2018, targeting 260303 children under 5 years of age in 8 districts covered by ZAUMS PHC network. This target population included a total of 20787 non-Iranian children under 5 years of age.
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences is on the track of Malaria Elimination
Malaria has long been a health problem in Sistan and Balouchestan (1). Despite socio economic development and very low incidence of malaria cases in other parts of the country, malaria is still a health challenge in Sistan and Baluchestan.Sistan and Balouchestan province accounts for 60 to 80 percent of total cases of malaria in Iran. Furthermore, more than 80% of local transmission has been reported in this province (2). Except for the years 1995, 2003, 2007 and 2008, there has been a decrease in malaria rate in the province in recent years. In such a way that malaria Annual Parasite Incidence (API) has decreased from 36.9 in 1991 to 0.09 to 2016, respectively.
In pictures: The first provincial conference on "Pedestrian Safety" jointly held by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences and the Provincial Traffic Police in Zahedan, I.R. of Iran
In pictures: The first provincial conference on "Pedestrian Safety" jointly held by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences and the Provincial Traffic Police in Zahedan southeast of Iran
The 2nd International Congress and 23rd Iranian Congress of Physiology and Pharmacology along with the presence of researchers, professors, academics and students of inside and outside of the country.
The 2nd International Congress of Physiology and Pharmacology of Iran began yesterday morning with the presence of professors, graduate and postgraduate students, faculty members and researchers of inside and outside of the country
Health Library on Wheels: Public transportation buses delivering health messages in Zahedan, Southeast of Iran
Library on Wheels (LOW) is a unique bookmobile service, dedicated to serving our community in new and exciting ways. Even in the digital age, they are like a free access to the internet. They bring answers to questions people were looking for, and they bring entertainment (1). The first bookmobile in the world operated in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. Launched in 1857 by a philanthropist George Moore, the horse-drawn wagon served books from bookshelves mounted on the outside. This "perambulating" library traveled between eight villages in the Cumbria County, in North West England (2)
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) serving Arbaeen pilgrims from Pakistan
اربعین زیارت دنیا کا سب سے بڑا عوامی اجتماع ہے جو عراق کے مقدس شہر کربلا میں ہر سال منعقد ہوتا ہے۔ زندگی کے تمام لوگوں سے تعلق رکھنے والے کچھ زائرین پاکستان کے شہروں سے بذریعہ سڑک ایران کے شہر میرجاویہ میں ایران پاکستان سرحد کو عبور کرتے ہوئے کربلا کے مقدس شہر کا سفر کرتے ہیں۔
In Pictures: Dr. Raeisi, Deputy Minister for Health visits Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Dr. Raeisi, Deputy for Health, Iran Ministry of Health Visiting Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Safe Delivery Posts: A successful initiative to improve equitable reproductive health and childbirth services in outskirts of Zahedan, southeast of Iran
In 2000, Zahedan (capital of Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeast of Iran) had a total of 480,000 Iranian population and was hosting about 100,000 non-Iranian and immigrant population. Nearly 200,000 people lived on the outskirts of the city, with a significantly lower socioeconomic status (in terms of income, literacy rate and general health indicators, etc), as compared with the rest of the population living in the city.
Primary Health care System Reform in Iran: a New Return to the Alma-Ata Declaration
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
