INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
We wish you a happy family doctor's day, May 19
The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) has declared May 19th as World Family Doctor Day since 2010
Reminding and celebrating this occasion shows the importance of family doctors in advanced health systems as well as the inevitable
development of family physician programs in the future of other countries
Congratulations on this day to family doctors, those who have been and are in charge of the first line of treatment and prevention of
diseases, especially in the Covid 19 pandemic, we celebrate World Family Doctors Day.Family medicine is a type of medicine in which family
physicians are in direct contact with families
These doctors are responsible for primary health care and are physicians who are always present
familiarity with their medical history, these doctors can find out their illnesses sooner and treat them continuously in case of illness,
and only if they need more extensive services, the person should A specialist or subspecialist will refer you
available and present, caring for the target population.Periodic examinations and monitoring of people's health status, easy and
round-the-clock access to basic services and primary care, and preventing frequent visits to doctors are the characteristics of a family
physician.According to the legal requirements approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly and emphasizing paragraph B of Article 91 of the
Fourth Development Plan and paragraph B of Article 37 of the Budget Law of 2009 on establishing a referral system using the family physician
strategy and launching this system for individuals in the country We also design and implement a rural family physician program since 2005,
to continue to meet the needs of the community, the need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health sector, balance health
care costs and provide access to services to 28 million people living in rural areas
implemented as the second revolution in the health system after the first revolution, which was the "establishment of a health care network
system based on PHC."The implementation of the family doctor program in urban areas also began in June 2012 in Fars and Mazandaran provinces
Between the patient and physician, reducing out-of-pocket payments has been an important effect and benefit of the urban family physician
program.In this regard, in the Islamic Republic of Iran since 2015, following the changes in the demographic model, and since people
preferred to share their problems with specialists, even in the first contact, the desire for super-specialized fields had weakened the
The purpose of launching a specialized field of family medicine in the country, saving health costs, providing better services by family
medical professionals, strengthening health care, provide continuous services and more effective follow-up, control the supply and demand
system, and proper allocation of resources, referral Correcting patients to other specialists, reducing the pressure of clients from
specialists, recording patient medical records over time, reducing the burden of various diseases, improving health indicators, creating the
necessary capabilities to implement the programs in question and the desired community-based Definitions and global standards of family
physician has been the gradual provision of a suitable platform for the establishment of family medicine based on the definitions and
the field of service delivery independently, people who have the degree of expertise as family physicians to be able to perform procedures
Therefore, at present, with the training of more than 220 family medicine specialists, the training of assistants in the field of family
medicine in Iran has been stopped for unknown reasons, and the Iranian Ministry of Health has not been able to place family medicine
Islamic Republic of Iran, like other leading countries with a model following international standards, will cover all members of society in
the family medicine program and take effective steps to improve the health of Islamic Iran.Ebrahim Noori-Goushki is a family medicine
