THE PUBLIC COOPERATION HOSPITAL NO 2, TEHRAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Iran
SUBJECT The Public Cooperation Hospital No 2, Tehran
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the Public Cooperation Hospital No 2 in Tehran
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is owned and operated by the city government. The hospital provides free nedi-
cal treatment for the indigent. It is a new hospital and first accepted
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2. Hospital facilities include 150 beds, five physicians with ND degrees ',all from
the University of Tehran), six University of Tehran medical students and eight
practical nurses. The hospital is always crowded; bed vacancies are usual y
filled within a few hours after patients' departure. Written medical hiatories
are maintained and case histories on each patient are taken. All medical
records are filed alphabetically in the admitting office.
3.~ The staff physicians with !2 degrees spend at least four hours each day at the
- hospital and receive salaries ranging from 3000 to 4000 rials per .month. Stu-
dent physicians must be seniors in the University of Tehran medical school.
They receive a fixed salary of 1200 rials per month and usually work aT least
four hours each day. Student physicians strive for appointments to this
hospital because it is the only one in Tehran which pays a salary for their
services.
1. Because the Persian language has an inadequate medical vocabulary, prescriptions
are written in Latin and French. All prescriptions are filled once a day, ex-
cept for emergencies, in the hospital pharmacy where there are two pharmacists
with degrees from University of Tehran.
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the infectious diseases department. The print:pal in-
fectious diseases treated are typhoid, amoebic and bacillary dysenter,,r, maaria,
pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia. Incidence of typhoi:l is
highest in spring; pneumonia and influenza occur most frequently in winter.
Treatment for Typhoid.: Injections of sparteine or camphor are used for heart
stimulation. The camphor is dissolved in a sweet oil or water solution with a
25% camphor base. Apparently this camphor injection is not used in US Irx-
jections of cusbain are also given as heart stimulants. Injections of glucose
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ranging from 5% to 25% are given daily plus a rigorous diet. Large quantities
of quinine are used and also a liberal amount of vitamin C.
Treatment for Malaria: Quinine and iodo-tannic acid.
Treatment for Influenza: 4Su1fmniaze#' a:piry atives$ cOrxphor injections
orhear t stimulation and compulsory confinement to bed.
Treatment re for Trachoma: An electric vibrator is used on eyelids as well. as hand
massage for the eyelids. This treatment is highly successful.
10.. Treatment for Yellow Jaundice: Penicillin, vitamin C,*sulfamiazene, camphor
injections for te t sti ation and calomel for bile.
11, Departments for internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, ear nose and throat
and children's diseases are also established in this hospital. Principal chil-
dren's.diseases are malnutrition, chronic malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis and
yellow Jaundice.
12. Medical statistics are not assembled and published in report form to the Ministry
of Health. However, the number of typhoid cases are reported on the lay of ad-
mission to the Ministry of Health.
13. Although no one is designated as medical director of the hospital, Da (:au)
25X1 Na bodi is regarded by the staff doctors as the chief physician. Fe is a
surgeon particularly skilled in internal surgery.
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very conscientious and. interested in his patients' welfare. He visits eact of
them daily'. He has been a professor of anatomy at the University of Tefran
Medical School since about.19 2. He studied medicine,in France. He la we-11.1
liked by both physicians and patients.
14. Hasan ':ft ad:Lan is superintendent of the hospital. He: is in . charge of f _:aances
and pUrc sea food, medicine and equipment. Almost all medicine and ma?.cal
instruments come from US, France and Great Britain in that, order. Hcne come
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Comment: Most prq ia~y ! ~.pham~ra~zine '
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