Iran starts hospital construction programme:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The Iranian government is tackling the country's shortage of hospital beds with a major programme of hospital construction. It has a budget this year of Rials 170 billion ($57 million) for the construction of a total of 98 hospitals, scheduled for completion in 2002. Of these, 26 will be in operation by March 20 1999, the end of the current Iranian year, according to the news agency, IRNA.