Health and Medical Services of the Astan Quds Razavi

Besides acting in cultural and economical domains, Astan Quds Razavi is tremendously active also in the treatment and medical domain even in the international level. Among its performances we can refer to the establishment of the Razavi Sub-specialty Hospital and Muntaseriyeh Hospital, expansion and renovation of the central Imam Pharmacy, foundation of the Razavi medical Institute, medical bases, pediatrics and family clinic, Razavi medicinal services and Samen Pharmaceutics Company.

1. Razavi Hospital, the medical hub in the Middle East
The 320-bed Razavi sub-specialty Hospital is built in an area of approximately 4,000,000 square meters with a build-up area of 56,000 square meters on 5 floors.

Different sections of the hospital
Different sections of the hospital include CSR unit, MRI unit, nuclear medicine, endoscopy, urgency, specialized clinics (check-up, holter monitoring, dentistry, ear, nose, and throat specialty, pain, gynecology, painless delivery, internal medicine), laboratory, radiology (plain, digital, mammography, panorex, and bone mineral densitometry), sonography (fixed and mobile), CT scan, CT angiography, pharmacy, cardiac rehabilitation ward, central operation rooms, CATlab, ICUs (open heart surgery), gynecology, delivery block, NICU, heart department (including heart sections 1 and 2, CCU and heart surgery, echocardiography, and exercise test, and pace maker).
This hospital has hospitalization rooms in four shapes equipped with nurse call and nursing cares, library, infected wastes sterilization unit, welfare facilities for the employees, hospital administration system (HIS, BMS) and advanced communications system.

Sub-sections
Admission, echocardiography and ECG, EEG and EMG, maternal and child health centers, radiology Sonography, CT scan and CT angiography, Panorex, pharmacy, cardiac rehabilitation, Central operating rooms, laboratories, specialized medical imaging, injections and dressing, recovery, hospitalization for men and women, etc. are sub-sections of the hospital.

Research infrastructures
Infrastructures of this hospital include conference halls, library, amphitheater hall, seminar hall, report drafting rooms, etc.

The most equipped and advanced nuclear medical center
The center has been created with the purpose of increasing the capacity of the Razavi Hospital and developing nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancer and incurable diseases; it was started to build in 87 and within about 4 years, despite sanctions, it was completed and equipped.
The ability to perform diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine technology at a center and building and equipping seven operation rooms are dominant features of the Razavi Hospital that is almost peerless in the world.
Also, the online communication with the world treatment centers during surgery to exchange ideas with experts from around the world is another feature of the center\'s operating rooms.

The second phase of the Razavi Hospital
The second phase of this hospital was put into operation in Shahrivar 1392 on a build-up area of 38,000 sq.m. on six floors.
In this phase, in addition to CCU and ICU units equipped with advanced features, there is a VIP hospitalization possibility that is a factor in attracting health tourism.
Also it has a specialized library equipped with the world modern equipment, and offers different levels of services to patients in the 200-bed hospital; moreover, possessing 18 apartment units in order to expand services to patients and health tourism, providing diverse and affordable services to all segments of society and integrating diagnosis and treatment centers on one location are other features of this new health center.
Remarkably, the hospital\'s contract has been signed by all health insurances of the country offering the best health care facilities in the world calculated based on Mashhad medical system rates that is even lower than the cost of treatment in Tehran.

The newest and the most update radiotherapy equipment in the Razavi Hospital
Radiotherapy section of the hospital, developed at the second phase of the hospital, has the newest and the update radiotherapy equipment of the world that is singular in the country.

Honors
Some honors of this hospital are receiving the platinum award for the first time in the Middle East, creating internet reservation system, cell therapy of cardiac disorder, establishing the first sub-specialty training course in cardiac surgery super school, initiating specialized clinic for anxiety, modern treatment of epileptic patients through in-brain electrode technique, using the new method of hemorrhoid repair, brain surgery by means of electrode method for the first time in Iran, holding the international conference on stroke, reviving tourism therapy industry in the country, holding the third international congress on cardiovascular, holding the first congress on health tourism of Islamic countries, holding the first international congress in professional communication in hospital centers, holding the international congress on aorta with specialists from 17 countries, and possessing the largest nuclear medical center in the Middle East. (This hospital possessing the best technology of the world in the field of diagnosis and treatment of cancer, seven super advanced ORs, 500 hospitalization beds, this hospital is one of the treatment poles of the region enabling it to be in contact with the best German and American universities during surgeries.)
Also selected by the government as the national region of health tourism in Iran, this hospital has the most and the best professional forces of the region, while also its relatively low treatment cost and simultaneous diagnosis and treatment in a single center has caused it override the competitors in the middle East.
It is notable that it has held more than 70 medical congresses since its establishment until now from which 20 congresses has to do with different medical issues such as cardiovascular, brain and nerves, gynecology and delivery, and digestive and internal diseases.

2. Muntaseriyeh Hospital, Mashhad
Educational, research and treatment center of Muntaseriyeh constructed by Astan Quds Razavi was transferred to Mashhad Medical Sciences University in 1389 Azar month.
The hospital building is constructed on an area of 3200 sq.m. and a build-up area of 9200 sq.m. on six floors. Operating as the transplantation and dialysis center, this hospital contains emergency rooms, specialized and sub-specialized clinics, the advanced lab in accordance with the requirements of transplantation ward, imaging (radiology and color Doppler sonography), operation rooms, intensive care unit, central sterilization, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, hospitalization sections for kidney transplantation and nephrology, liver and marrow transplantation services.

3. Razavi Medical Institution (Imam Reza (A.S.) Dar al-Shifa)
This institution recently relocated in a new building of 4 floors on an area of 4939 sq.m. contains modern medical equipment including endoscopy, echocardiography, spirometry, emergency rooms, CPR room, radiology, laboratory, round-the-clock pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, audiometry, midwifery, specialized clinics for heart, eye, ear, throat, nose, nerves, internal, skin, orthopedic, gynecology and delivery and oncology.

4. Launching medical bases
Six emergency bases has been established across the courtyards of the holy shrine all of which are equipped with electroshock machines and ambulance rendering service all day long.

5. Establishing the specialized pediatric and family clinic
This clinic using 50 consultants and the first consultation software in the country has been devised in the Institution of Consultation Services, the Youth, and Social Researches. The majority of references to this center have been related to psychotherapy and family-therapy covering a half portion. It is largely active in the field of the youth and family. All classes of people refer to this institution.

6. Razavi Institution for medicinal services
Razavi Institution for medicinal services was inaugurated in 1362 Esfand month as a subsidiary of Astan Quds Razavi organization.

Performances of the institution
The institution operates on such domain as supplying required drugs from the internal and possibly external sources, supplying sanitary products, providing educational possibilities for students at Pharmaceutics College, and producing combinational medicines.

Medicinal plants unit of Razavi Institution for medicinal services
This unit aims to actualize the customer-centeredness principle and promote the consumption of medicinal plants and herbal food supplementary in the pharmacies under the supervision of the pharmacist.

Medicinal plants unit
This unit offers services such as supplying 100 kinds of medicinal plants as packages accompanied with usage instruction brochures, supplying different kinds of plant oils and essences with high quality treatment advantages, formulation and production of combinational plant drugs such as herbal tea, powder, ointment, cream, and supplying different plant pills, drops, syrups, etc. as well as presenting guide booklets on plant therapy, scent therapy, traditional medicine, and other sciences related to plant therapy, supplying medicinal information on plant medicines and plant therapy with introduction of at least one scientific authentic source including books and papers and finally giving reputable internet website on plant therapy.
Remarkably, this institution was awarded 2000 ISO9001 in 1384.

7. Samen Pharmaceutical Company
Samen Pharmaceutical Company is one of large companies of Astan Quds Razavi that is regarded among the ten top leading medicinal companies of the country producing and sending to market about 65 kinds of products in injection serum, injection drug, biotechnology products, etc.

Main function of the company
The main function of the company is producing all sterile injectable solutions, washing solutions, peritoneal and blood dialysis, biotechnology products and natural and neo-combinational lyophilized and non-lyophilized peptides. It has always attempted drug development and pharmaceutical services to the medical community and patients, especially kidney patients to provide a joyful living for them.
Other activities of the company are contribution in establishment of manufactures of serum and injectable solutions, blood and peritoneal dialysis, sterile washings and lyophilized products, medicinal and medical equipment and production of raw materials and required spare parts, selling and export of products of the factory and doing all activities related directly or indirectly to the company.

Samples of company’s products
The company supplies such products as factor IX, anticancer drugs, idazoxan (ifosfamide) for injection, adrisin (doxorubicin hydrochloride), methotrexate pill, biotechnology products, electrolyte balancing solutions, dialysis products, electrolyte and nutrition solutions, antibacterial drugs, blood substitutes, diluters, and washing solutions.

Mass production of factor IX and saving more than 95 million Euros
Factor IX is a highly complicated molecule full of amino acids and its production is complicated too. Apart from its role in health, this product is essential to be produced inside the country in order to solve the problems of hemophilic patients. Mass production of factor IX has resulted in saving more than 95 million Euros for the country.
It is notable that Saman Daru-ye-Hashtum has started building a structure on an area of 4,200 sq.m. on three floors designated to production of human neo-combinational factor IX that was inaugurated in 1392 Murdad. Another service rendered by Samen Pharmaceutics Co. is production of automatic peritoneal dialysis solution for the first time in the country.