TEHRAN Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has stated the Family Physician Program is prepared to kick off in the current Iranian year that began on March 21.
It is a massive program based on social behavior modification.
Creating brand-new patient paths, reforming the referral pattern, and enhancing the health care network system requires cautious coordination between theHealth Ministry, governors, and other pertinent institutions at the provincial level, IRIB quoted Zafarqandi as saying.So, it is definitely vital to develop a nationwide head office headed by the President to supervise the general management of the program, he added.We have actually currently reached arrangements on ten key issues such as financial resources, location, application stages, and public information.
Furthermore, the chancellors of medical sciences universities will hold a meeting this week to finalize the execution design for the program, Zafarqandi noted.The rural family physician program begun in 2005.
Back then, it targeted towns and cities with a population of less than 20,000 people to make treatment recommendations more concentrated and offer easier access to health services, ISNA reported.Periodic assessments and monitoring of peoples health status, easy and day-and-night access to basic services and medical care, and frequent check outs to doctors are the attributes of a family physician.Medical, dental, mental, midwifery, nutrition, lab, pharmaceutical, and medical imaging are amongst the offered services by the program.Based on the Family Physician Program, a doctor and a midwife offer services in rural areas, every 3,300 villagers have a physician and there is a midwife per 5,200 individuals in villages.In September 2023, Mohsen Barouni, an official with the Health Ministry said, Family Physician Program has actually been implemented in 3 phases; in the first phase 59 cities were included in the program; in the 2nd stage, it raised to 93 cities and now an overall of 182 cities are covered by the program, covering more than 20 million Iranians, IRNA reported.MT/ MG.
This short article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times