Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Health in the news: Lack of hospitals in some districts of the coutnry

Dr. Lankarani, the Minister of Health, reported that only less than 10% of 300 districts (shahrestan in Persian) in the country lack any hospital. This indicates the main problem of our healthcare is not the number of hospitals but rather the quality of healthcare. Improving the quality of health insurance policies will lead to a drastic improvement of quality of care he stressed.

Source: Jamejanonline, www.jamejamonline.ir January 10, 2007

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