Health Minister: 20,000 Iranians Lose Their Lives in Road Accidents Annually

Referring to the deaths of 20,000 Iranians in road accidents each year, the Health Minister stressed the need for a careful review of vehicle and road safety standards and criticized the gap between the drafting of safety standards and their implementation.

Referring to the annual death of 20,000 Iranians in accidents, the Minister of Health emphasized the need for a detailed review of car and road standards and criticized the gap between the formulation of safety standards and their implementation.

Ambassador of Arjan-Social Group: Dr. Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi at the World Standards Day ceremony, while congratulating the experts, researchers and manufacturers on this day, said: The fact is that the standard issue is one of the main indicators of developed societies and it is impossible for a balanced and all-round development to occur without strong standardization.

He stated: About 25 to 30 percent of issues related to people's health are within the health field, and 75 percent of the factors affecting it are outside this field, and the correction and monitoring of these factors require broad and strong coordination between the health system and the National Standards Organization.

Zafarqandi added: According to recent reports, 700,000 children in the world die every year due to air pollution, a large part of which is caused by the lack of necessary standards in fuel and the use of diesel fuel. An issue that directly affects the health of communities; On the other hand, in our country, about 20,000 young people die every year on the roads due to accidents, which requires a detailed examination of the standards of cars and roads. Because if all the airbags and air bags were opened on time, we would not have witnessed this number of road casualties and the loss of lives of our citizens.

He emphasized: In addition, accidents caused by working in non-standard environments are one of the major challenges of the health system, the cost and damages of which are imposed on the health and treatment field, and the question is raised whether the standard is a fixed category or variable, and considering that food and agricultural products are constantly subject to change due to toxins and antibiotics, the standards should also be continuously reviewed and upgraded; In this direction, the communication between universities and scientific centers with the standard organization is necessary to manage emerging challenges.

In the end, the Minister of Health noted: In times of war or mass accidents, we make the best decision to save the lives of the injured with the available facilities through triage, and in the field of standards, it should be determined to what extent the welfare and health of the people come before other matters, and how to have a powerful standard that puts health at the forefront of the work and that people's health is always the main and definite priority of this organization.

The Minister of Health, warning about the possibility of the spread of Aeds mosquito and dengue fever in the country, announced the cooperation with the Atomic Energy Organization for the development of insect sterilization technology and the control of vector diseases.

The Minister of Health warned about the annual death of about 50 thousand people due to air pollution and considered the development of solar energy as a solution to reduce pollution and provide sustainable energy.

The head of the country's road police warned about the increased risk of accidents in the month of Shahrivar and announced that last year around 1,600 people died in road accidents in this month. A statistic that includes more than 10% of all accident deaths of the year.