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progressing, Iran has the strongest health system in the region, Health Minister Bahram Einollahi has stated.This success is the result of
the resistance of people, as well as the round-the-clock efforts of scientists and innovative youth, he noted.However, before the Islamic
Revolution, some of the physicians were dispatched from India and Pakistan, and there was no significant progress in the field of medicine
in the country, he stated.Also, people used to go to other countries for treatment, but today we have achieved so much in the field of
health that many patients in the region travel to Iran for treatment, he highlighted.This success is the result of the resistance of people,
as well as the round-the-clock efforts of scientists and innovative youth.Despite the cowardly sanctions, especially in the field of medical
equipment and medicine, our country was one of the successful nations in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, and now that other countries are
numbers or zero.Elsewhere in his remarks, he said one of the most important priorities of the Ministry of Health is "deprivation
eradication" to ensure the health of people in all parts of the country.Rise in pharmaceuticals, medical productionsThe import of
Shanehsaz, former head of the Food and Drug Administration, said last October.Today, all medicine used in the treatment of coronavirus are
produced by domestic manufacturers, and if we wanted to import all the items, there would be a high exchange rate, he further stated,
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) used to produce drugs in Iran were made locally.A total of 227 knowledge-based firms are supplying medical
equipment for health centers across the country, according to the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.Knowledge-based companies can
produce any medicine effective in countering coronavirus or approved by the scientific committee within a week to 10 days, Sourena Sattari,
vice president for science and technology, said.In January 2021, the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam unveiled three raw
pharmaceuticals and a new anti-coronavirus drug called Ivermectin, which had been previously imported.Also, Iran is capable of production of
developmentBased on innovative indicators of health technology development in 2021, Iran was ranked 60th among 132 countries, which shows an
improvement of 60 steps compared to 2014, the deputy health minister for research and technology, has announced.A total of 1,670
knowledge-based firms are operating in the health sector, ISNA quoted Younes Panahi as saying.He added that there are 13 science and
technology parks and 95 technology growth centers in the field of health, while 343 technological products have so far been licensed, and
335 inventions in medical sciences have been patented.The health technology development is evaluated by the Global Innovation Index with
seven indicators, including institutional structure, human capital and research, infrastructure, market and business complexity,
technological knowledge, and creativity, he explained.In June 2021, Ahmed al-Mandhari, the World Health Organization director for Eastern
Mediterranean Region, said the Islamic Republic of Iran is a role model for primary health care.For the past four decades, its PHC network
outset of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Islamic Republic of Iran made its primary health care system a core part of its national response
This PHC infrastructure allowed systematic outreach activities for early case detection, contact tracing, and triage for hospital referral
