Manager of Environmental and Vocational Health of the Health Deputy of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences pointed that preventing from the spread of water-borne diseases is a key plan of the Health Deputy and said: ‘access to healthy drinking water is a fundamental need of the society’.

According to WebDa, speaking in the sideline of the training workshop for microbial tests, engineer Ali Asghar Hassani referred to the supervising role of the Health Deputy in controlling the quality of drinking water in the areas under coverage of the university; he stated: ‘checking the microbial quality of water in water-supply systems of cities and villages under coverage of the university according to national standards, existence of more than 80 public swimming pools and the need to microbial screening of water in these pools, tanks for storing water, mobile and fixed tanks, various packed water at the distribution level, and output water from desalination systems highlights the importance of screening water and the significance of using healthy water to prevent from water borne diseases.

Revising methods for microbiological testing of water, how to calculate the number of water samples, determining the places of sampling, adhering to sampling principles, how to transfer the sample to the laboratory and preserving the cold chain, methods of rinsing and sterilizing the equipment, calibration, recording sampled cases and the results of experiments in the comprehensive system for management and inspection of the Environment and Workplace Health Center of the Ministry of Health, immediate reporting of probable contamination cases to the person in charge of water supply for immediate troubleshooting, enhancing and expanding laboratory equipment according to instructions issued by the Ministry based on operational plan of the Ministry of Health, getting familiar with all national sampling standards and water microbial tests and instructions of the Ministry of Health were among issues discussed in this workshop. 

It should be noted that the training workshop for microbiological tests of water was held thanks to the Health Center of the Province and in cooperation with the Health Center number 1 of Mashhad, with the presence of experts of water microbiology laboratories of health centers of townships affiliated with Mashhad University f Medical Sciences for 2 days with the aim of qualitatively and quantitatively enhance supervision on water health as well as immediate intervention in crises.