@2024 Afarand., IRAN

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ISSN: 2251-8215    Sarem Journal of Reproductive Medicine 2017;1(3):

Information & Methods Modern medicine in Iran during the Qajar period and the Chancellery of Amir ‎Kabir, especially after the establishment of the “Darulfonon”, flourished. This ‎school had a variety of majors, including medicine and pharmacy, and with the ‎recruitment of foreign teachers, was a major contributor to the development and ‎teaching of science, including medicine. Then the school graduates, along with ‎teachers, established government hospitals. Also, at that time, some branches of ‎hospitals were assigned to midwifes and tutors in the hospital, which were soon ‎shut down. But in the next years, regarding to the increasing number of high-risk ‎pregnancies and the deaths of women and children, the necessity of establishing a ‎hospital for pediatricians and obstetricians was quite evident. So far, there has ‎been some the sources about the maternity hospital that does not exceed a total of ‎several lines, but in the Qajar periodical archives and publications, as well as ‎internal and external experts' reports, the history of the women's hospital was ‎presented in terms of the process of development and executive organization, ‎financing, development of activities.‎
Conclusion Dr. Amir Alam in 1915 stated the necessity of establishing a maternity hospital to ‎the Ministry of Education. Thus, the Board of Governors donated a building for the ‎hospital. After the establishment and supply of equipment in 1916, the maternity ‎hospital was opened. From the time of its establishment to 1927, this hospital ‎was under the supervision of Dr. Alireza Mohazzabolsaltaneh. Women's Hospital ‎as the first special treatment center for women and children in Iran was the base ‎of other health centers, and treatment programs for women and children in the ‎country.‎