Financial Tribune - Iran Health Insurance Organization has plans to extend health insurance to refugees in the next fiscal year that starts in March 2020. So far "approximately 92,000 foreigners are covered by the Salamat [health] Insurance Scheme," said an official with the IHIO. The scheme provides all registered Afghan and Iraqi refugees health ...

Tehran, Jan 12, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said creating equal opportunities for people is part of administering social justice, adding that public insurance is not all justice but certainly part of it. The president was speaking in a ceremony to celebrate a new welfare plan launched by his government called 'Public Health Insurance'. The plan ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Iranian national soccer squads 2-0 win over Bahrain in the AFC Asian Cup in Australia dominated the front pages of the Iranian newspapers on Monday. Harsh exchanges ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian dailies on Saturday and picked headlines from 19 of them. The front pages of Iranian dailies were dominated by a number of stories such as the first hiking of the Supreme Leader in the heights of Tehran since his prostate surgery last month. On the international front, the winning of the 2014 Nobel ...

Irans administration is implementing an inclusive health coverage program in order to extend medical insurance to all Iranians. Medical insurance was first introduced in Iran in 1935. However, millions of people, especially the underprivileged, cannot afford to take out medical coverage. The current administration has a free mandatory nationwide coverage ...

TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA) Irans Hassan Rouhani has said development would lag behind without development in health sector. President Rouhani, who was speaking in the Public Health Insurance seminar, told that the health and insurance were very important issues. According to 20-Year VisionPlan, we should achieve 8 per cent of annual growth in health ...

Tehran, May 19, IRNA - The Head of Irans Health Research and Policymaking Center said recently that the implementation of the Health Development Plan is expected to meet the needs of people living across the country. Kamran Baqeri Lankarani added that serious efforts should be made to implement the plan in vulnerable regions, and that more healthcare ...

Tehran, April 15, IRNA - The government is determined to provide health insurance to all people by March 2016 said Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpei, managing director of Iran Health Insurance Organization. Bandpei made the remarks in an interview with IRNA on Monday. He added $266.66m, which will be obtained from the implementation of the second phase ...