23 October 2023, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran – To combat childhood lead poisoning, the WHO Country Office in the Islamic Republic of Iran has teamed up with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences to mark International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, from 22 to 28 October 2023. This year’s campaign is “End childhood lead poisoning”, with...

24 October 2023 – To further strengthen the fight against poliomyelitis, WHO has provided the Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Polio Laboratory with a cutting edge sequencing machine. This donation coincides with World Polio Day 2023, reaffirming the commitment of both WHO and the National Polio Laboratory to eradicate polio and ensure a...

17 October 2023, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran – WHO has announced the successful delivery of 6 state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scanners to hospitals across the Islamic Republic of Iran, marking a significant milestone in a joint initiative aimed at bolstering critical health infrastructure within the country. This delivery,...

10 October 2023, Tehran – Today is World Mental Health Day, a chance for people and communities to unite behind the theme “Mental health is a universal human right”. The aim of the global day is to improve knowledge, raise awareness, and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right.  WHO, in...

16 August 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran, held training-of-trainers courses on patient safety-friendly frameworks to develop the capacity of health care professionals to implement these frameworks in the country. Dr Jaffar Hussain, WHO...

Medical team from Shirabad Community Mental Health Centre visited Zoleykha at home to deliver the therapy  15 August 2023 – A 32-year-old woman of Afghan nationality, Zoleykha lives in Shirabad, an underprivileged neighbourhood in the suburb of Zahedan, the capital city of Sistan and Baluchistan province in southeast of the Islamic Republic of...

Tehran, 26 July – To enhance the capacity of hospital emergency units for responding to mass casualty incidents, the Health Emergencies Unit of WHO country office in the Islamic Republic of Iran held the First National Training of Trainers Workshop on Mass Casualty Management from 16 to 19 July 2023 in Tehran. Twenty-five emergency medicine...

Tehran, 18 July 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran, held a workshop on basic emergency care from 10 to 13 July 2023. Developed by WHO and the International Committee of the Red Cross, together with the International Federation for Emergency...

18 June 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered the first 3 MRI machines as a part of a project that is funded by the Government of Japan aimed at strengthening the diagnostic capacity of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s health system. The state-of-the-art 1.5-Tesla MRI scanners will be installed in hospitals identified by the...

WHO country office team meets with managers of the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) as one of the partners of the WHO/ECHO project at NEMO headquarters in Tehran 7 June 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new project funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). This project...