Iranian presidential candidate Ali Akbar Velayati has pledged to provide free healthcare services if he wins the upcoming presidential election.Addressing a group of university students and scholars in Tehran on Sunday, the principlist candidate said people would initially have to pay for around 30 percent of their healthcare expenses if it is ratified by the Majlis.
Velayati, who is a former foreign minister and a medical doctor, added that healthcare services would be later provided completely free of charge.
He further stated that free healthcare coverage should start form Irans rural areas, highlighting the important contribution of those areas to domestic production.
Velayati is currently a senior advisor to the leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. He is also a member of the principlist Coalition of Three along with lawmaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
Other candidates include Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, President of the Strategic Research Center of the Expediency Council Hassan Rohani, former First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi, Haddad-Adel and Qalibaf.
Iranians will go to the polls in the countrys 11th presidential election on June 14. The fourth city and rural council elections are also scheduled to be held on the same day.
Nearly 50.5 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential election, with more than 1.6 million first-time voters.
By Press TV
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