Iran Press/Iran news: Delivering a speech on seventy-third World Health Assembly, Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki said, "My country has been hit hard by the outbreak. However, we have managed to reduce the mortality rate drastically due to extensive public health measures taken on the basis of “the whole of state, whole of society” approach."
The minister added, "We initiated an ambitious national campaign to curb the virus, wherein the first round more than 78 million people were screened, using our strong PHC infrastructure, in a stepwise referral system, which resulted in a dramatic reduction in hospital admissions. In the second round of screening, 22 million high-risk people were targeted."
"We have expanded our laboratory capacities to outpatient clinics, focusing on contact tracing, isolation, and early treatment. To avoid further damage to the economy, in the framework of ‘smart distancing’, we decided a step-by-step reopening of businesses."
"I would like to underline the critical importance of global solidarity and international collaboration to overcome the pandemic and to ensure timely, affordable, and equitable access to medicines and vaccines," the minister said.
"Unilateral sanctions are an inhuman impediment that inflicts unnecessary suffering and pain. The US must be held to account for its ever-intensifying genocidal sanctions against Iranian and other affected nations," Namaki noted.
"The year 2020 is named the year of ‘nurses and midwives’, and I would like to commend all frontline health workers, particularly those who dedicated their lives to save COVID patients," he concluded.
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