First HSSP Center in Iran Launched, Supported by Benefactors

Iran’s first hospice center was launched in Mashhad, supported by benefactors, WEBDA reported.

The center was launched at a ceremony attended by Dr. Mehrabi Bahar, Head of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, along with some scholars, faculty members, and certain authorities.

Its objective is to provide services related to Palliative Care, treatment, and psychology to patients with incurable diseases and their families, as well.

The center, financially supported by Charitable Foundation of Professor Khatib, was constructed in a land area of 40,000 m². 

At the ceremony, Head of the charitable foundation, Professor Reza Khatib, asserted that the center will provide counseling services to patients as well as their families.

 “Featuring skilled staff, it will also give services to patients at their homes following their stay at the center and it can serve them at any time of day and night.”

 “HPSS Center has been established in many nations and this is the first center of the type in Iran.”

“Our endeavor is to boost patients’ mental and psychological conditions and to increase their life expectancy, he said, noting, “The center attempts to pull out patients with incurable diseases from seclusion and, most importantly, to relieve their pain.”

On sideline of the ceremony, Head of Radiation and Oncology Department at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Kazem Anvari, Ph.D., said, “The center was constructed as a comprehensive canon for Palliative Care in City of Mashhad. Here, University of Medical Sciences will play its monitoring role and, also, it will train the center’s staff.”

Palliative Care is not generally concerned with cancer, yet circa 70% of its services will be in sphere of cancer, according to Dr. Anvari.

Assigned by Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences is to develop Palliative Care in Iran, hence, it will provide the required services to patients.