Ministry of Health and Medical Education
Introduction The '''Ministry of Health and Medical Education''' ('''MOHME''') has executive responsibility for health and medical education within the Iranian government. The MOHME comprises five departments headed by deputy ministers: Health, Research & Technology, Education‌, Logistics, Food & Drugs.Iran's health system is highly centralized, and almost all decisions regarding general goals, policies and allocation of resources are made at the central level by MOHME. The Ministry has the legal authority to oversee, license and regulate the activities of the private health sector.An elaborate system of health network provides Primary Health Care (PHC) to the vast majority of the Iranian public. MOHME owns and runs Iran's largest health care delivery network of health establishments and medical schools. MOHME is in charge of provision of healthcare services through its network, medical insurance, medical education, supervision and regulation of the healthcare system in the country, policymaking, production and distribution of pharmaceuticals, and research and development.The Third Socio-economic Development Plan in 1999 authorized MOHME to adopt move towards public–private partnership in health care delivery. According to the 2003 Statistical Centre of Iran census, Iran has 730 medical establishments (hospitals, clinics,...) with 110,797 beds in all, of which 488 (77,300 beds) are run by the MOHME, 120 (11,301 beds) are privately owned, and the rest belong to other organisations, such as the Social Security Organization of Iran (SSO). According to the World Health Organization, private hospitals also do not prefer to contract with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, because of low tariffs, extra paperwork and delays in payment.Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has adopted a full generic-based National Drug Policy (NDP), with local production of essential drugs and vaccines as one of the main goals. MOHME has a mission to provide access to sufficient quantities of safe, effective and high quality medicines that are affordable for the entire population.MOHME is the main stakeholder of pharmaceutical affairs in the country. However, the Social Security Investment Co. (SSIC), Iran's largest holding company, which owns and controls 22 pharmaceutical manufacturing companies with a 40% share of total pharmaceutical production in Iran, is affiliated to the Ministry of Welfare.In 2006, 55 pharmaceutical companies in Iran produce more than 96 percent (quantitatively) of medicines on the market, worth $1.2 billion annually in a total market worth $1.87 billion (2008) and $3.65bn by 2013 (projected). Although over 85 percent of the population use an insurance system to reimburse their drug expenses, the government heavily subsidises pharmaceutical production/importation.The MOHME Department of Medical Equipment supervises imports of medical equipment, its import and distribution is mostly handled by the private sector.
Ministers since 1979 +No.PortraitNameTook officeLeftofficePartyGovernment160px'''Kazem Sami'''13 February 1979 29 October 1979JAMABazargan2'''Moussa Zargar'''17 November 197928 May 1980Council of the Islamic Revolution360px'''Hadi Manafi'''10 September 198014 August 1984Islamic Republican PartyRajaiBahonarMahdavi Kani (acting)Mousavi I460px'''Alireza Marandi'''20 August 198429 August 1989Islamic Republican PartyMousavi IMousavi II560px'''Iradj Fazel'''29 August 198913 January 1991Rafsanjani I660px'''Reza Malekzadeh'''5 March 199116 August 1993Executives of Construction PartyRafsanjani I(4)60px'''Alireza Marandi'''16 August 199320 August 1997PFIRFRafsanjani II760px'''Mohammad Farhadi'''20 August 1997 22 August 2001 Islamic Association of Iranian Medical SocietyKhatami I860px'''Masoud Pezeshkian'''22 August 2001 24 August 2005 Khatami II960px'''Kamran Bagheri Lankarani'''24 August 2005 3 September 2009 Front of Islamic Revolution StabilityAhmadinejad I 1060px'''Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi'''3 September 200927 December 2012 Islamic Association of Physicians of IranAhmadinejad II1160px'''Mohammad-Hassan Tarighat Monfared'''17 March 2013 15 August 2013 Ahmadinejad II1260px'''Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi'''15 August 2013 3 January 2019IndependentRouhani IRouhani II1360px'''Saeed Namaki'''4 February 201925 August 2021Rouhani II1460px'''Bahram Eynollahi'''25 August 2021Incumbent Raisi
Program *State Welfare Organization of Iran
See also * Health care in Iran* Science and technology in Iran * Agriculture in Iran
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