TUMSAO: President of TUMS said that construction of hospital  and lunching it are separate completely, he added: Management and operation of the hospital is possible after the completion of the building. Every university president and every minister wants such a project to be inaugurated during his tenure, but I insisted that the opening of a hospital is not important during our tenure, the accuracy of its operation is important, and we insisted on that. The Mehdi Clinic project is one of the projects of the 11th and 12th governments..

According to the public relations of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the full text of this interview is as follows:

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, as you know, these days the President of the Republic is inaugurating the country's medical projects. Usually, every day of the week, one of the ministries launches its own projects virtually by the President. In recent years, two major projects have been built at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The effort of the university and the executive team of the university was that, God willing, at the end of this four-year period, these two projects must be among the projects that enter the treatment cycle. Each of these two projects has its own characteristics. One is Mehdi Clinic in the area of ​​Imam Khomeini Hospital, which has its own special conditions, and the other is Children's Medical Center 2, or in other words, in parentheses, Hakim Hospital, which is affiliated with the medical center of a university in the south of the city in District 18. Let's talk about these two separate projects.

I would like to explain in detail about the model of their construction and the model of its operation that is being discussed these days to my university colleagues and to all our dear people, especially since these days in cyberspace, different organizations have different opinions about these two hospitals. The first is what I am giving you now as the head of the university. I will start with Mehdi Clinic. Mehdi Klinik is a large hospital that was demolished with the original benevolent intention by the family of the late Gerami in 1390 during the presidency of Dr. Larijani at Klangesh University. The family of the deceased has spent about one hundred and fifty billion tomans, and the original iron was poured in the form of a skeleton and its pickaxe was thrown to the ground. Later, due to the problems that occurred, the project was abandoned and the project was completely stopped for one or two years, until 1392, the president of the university was changed and Dr. Jafarian became the president of the university. The project is still in recession until the end of the year, for example, ninety-four and early ninety-five, again with a new model that is taken to continue the construction of the hospital is separated from the family and as a company under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and with the help of the Ministry of Health. With the composition of a board of directors that consisted of three people from outside and two people from the university, construction began until 1396, when I took charge of the university. .

The hospital is a complex whose operation is integrated

 From now on, in the same way as before, but this time another work will be added, and that is the investment of Bank Mellat, and the same board of directors that were previously under construction, three people from outside and two people from inside the representative university there, in addition to the loan. The four hundred billion tomans that Bank Mellat is accepting and in fact is partnering with the construction of this hospital, and the work continues at a much faster pace during Dr. Hashemi's ministry, until finally Dr. Hashemi also comes from the ministry and Dr. Namaki replaces him. Well, when Dr. Namaki came, almost two years ago, the project was reviewed again by the Ministry, and fortunately, with the consultations that the university had with the Ministry, I personally met with Dr. Namaki and the Deputy Minister of Development, and the many visits were made quickly. Continue more and in the same way. Dr. Namaki also attended the project and when they visited the project, they were very encouraged to put pressure on us to finish the project as soon as possible. During this period, the university did its best, and the university development department and its representatives from there worked, and fortunately, the assistance provided by Bank Mellat, the assistance provided by the foreign exchange board, and the collection of assistance provided by the Ministry of Health. The project has progressed more rapidly in recent days. This project was supposed to be exploited in the shortest possible time in this period, God willing, but I must explain here that the construction of a hospital and a hospital with the size of the Mehdi Clinic, with a capacity of about nine hundred beds and more or less variable, is a very large project. And it is a huge project that we did not have the history of construction with this volume in one place and in one place, in an area like the famous old hospital like Hazrat Imam Hospital, despite all the efforts of the university and all the efforts of the Ministry of Health. And all the efforts of the board of directors there and they tried very hard to get the project to the last days of this period, but the fact that I, as the president of the university, was satisfied that the patient could sleep there, was not ready. A hospital is a complex that is set up in an integrated way, meaning that all the ancillary wards of the hospital must be ready except for inpatient wards such as laboratories, such as radiology, such as facilities, such as kitchen services, and hospital transportation services, such as elevators. It is not possible to build a hospital with a thousand beds and a number of them, for example, one hundred beds or two hundred beds, even if the beds are ready, but the rest of the equipment that the hospital needs is not ready. Launch.

We wanted the Mehdi Clinic to be opened in the same period

Just in the days leading up to the launch, I asked the center board how many construction workers, engineers, and technicians now work there. Linguistically, the board of directors said that there were five hundred and thirty people, so a hospital with five hundred and thirty people working on construction, a hospital with 27 elevators and four elevators that have not been commissioned yet, could not be reached on these floors. Although two or four elevators are on, some parts are ready, some parts are fully arranged, but the hospital is fully equipped for nursing staff, service personnel, medical personnel to go in and start serving and the patient is hospitalized in terms of I am not ready at all.

Well, in the last weeks, considering that our hearts wanted to be opened in the same period, a lot of effort was made, especially the board of directors there, but unfortunately this did not happen..

We can not operate the hospital ahead of schedule

They also called from the office of the President that this is one of the projects of this period of the 11th and 12th governments, and it is true because most of the efforts of this project during the ministry of Dr. Hashemi and Dr. Namaki in the 11th government and most in the 12th government were right. If this project was ready, it would be put into operation, but my opinion is that we can not operate the hospital prematurely and inappropriately or earlier than the date that it can still be used, because of these marginal issues, for this reason, on 16 July I wrote directly to the Vice President, Dr. Nahavandian, with my own signature, and I officially announced the same explanation to the Vice President, and said that on the date of this hospital, the patient could not be admitted in any way . We want to open a hospitalization of the patient. Well, for me, I am Dr. Karimi, considering my service record, considering that I have a very valuable experience in setting up the largest specialized hospital in the country from zero to one hundred from the year one thousand three hundred and eighty, twenty Last year, I was at the Tehran Heart Center. I know that the heart center hospital was no longer working when I went alone to set it up, the hospital was completed, and it was just construction dust. From the day I entered the hospital until the day I performed my first heart surgery at that hospital after Mr. Khatami, as President, - I went to set up the heart center in September - Mr. Khatami inaugurated it on February 5th. On the morning of the 14th of Bahman, it was full of heart patients, and 10 days later I had my first heart operation at this center, so it took six months for us to set up a hospital without a worker. .

I gave all the information of Mehdi Clinic to the officials very frankly and frankly

I had this precious experience behind me twenty years ago at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. So how can I accept to be admitted to a thousand-bed hospital with these conditions now? That is why I provided all this information to the Minister, Dr. Namaki, very frankly and frankly, and he also provided the same information to the Deputy Minister of Health, and I wrote the same information in writing to the Vice President. Well, it is natural that we expected Mr. The President, given the hard work they put into this place during their tenure and the support they provided, really and fairly finally in these four or six years of this construction work done so much, they come and pay a visit and allow the opening for a few months. Then it will happen, we made the same request to Mr. President, and fortunately, after many discussions, the same thing happened yesterday, and I am very happy that finally our correct message, which is in different languages, through the Minister, the Deputy Minister of Health and the Deputy Minister. We informed the President, Dr. Nahavandian, that he finally agreed not to come in person. He explained orally at the Corona National Headquarters and explained very well that the 1,000-bed Mehdi Clinic Hospital was built during this period and that, God willing, it will be used. They said we really need it today.

The pleasure and sweetness of building such a specialized hospital is the right of the people

We can not use this as a field hospital. We have to use the same user who was paid for it as a specialized hospital with its own equipment. They said that this hospital is almost in its final stages and in the next few months, especially he said for two months. Let us build the sweetness of building such a specialized hospital with such facilities for the dear citizens who have the right to do so, even in these coronary conditions where the largest hospital in the country, namely Imam Khomeini Hospital, which is located next to this hospital and is currently serving..

Our working time is not important The accuracy of launching Mehdi Clinic is important

Mehdi Clinic, along with the service of Imam Khomeini Hospital and with the joint management of that hospital, may God have the best result for the country. This is the heartfelt wish of everyone. Every university president, every minister, every Herculean wants such a project to be inaugurated during his tenure, but I insisted that our tenure is not important..

In our time, there is no God-given performance of any dramatic work

I would like to inform my fellow citizens, and especially my dear academics, and especially my colleagues at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, that the university is doing the right thing. I insisted on this and we succeeded. Today, I congratulate all the academics, especially my colleagues at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, that, God willing, it will be operational in the coming months with the efforts and follow-up that the university will make and is responsible for launching the Mehdi Clinic..

The headquarters of the Ministry of Health, the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Namaki himself has helped a lot, but in the end what is supposed to happen is the establishment of the hospital by the dear university staff and our colleagues in Imam Khomeini Hospital who worked very hard. Dr. Sadegh Niat and the management team of that hospital tried to set it up there, God willing, and we will all feel its sweetness in the next few months..

Imam Khomeini Hospital is over eighty to ninety years old. It used to be called Pahlavi Hospital, which later turned into a thousand-bed hospital, and after the revolution, when the Imam arrived by helicopter and settled in this hospital, it was named Imam Khomeini Hospital..

Imam Khomeini Hospital is a hospital for the whole of Iran

People have known this hospital all over the country since ancient times and it is the refuge of all the patients who come to this hospital from all over the country. Imam Khomeini Hospital is a well-known hospital with all specialties and experienced medical staff. The staff is very hardworking, whether they are nursing, medical or support, and they have years of experience behind them. Today, Mehdi Clinic has been built inside the same hospital. Inside Imam Khomeini Hospital, about ten thousand people come and go every day, this hospital is not an ordinary hospital. First, it is the largest teaching hospital in the country; It is larger than about forty universities of medical sciences in terms of the number of faculty, in terms of manpower capacity and in terms of the services it provides, in terms of the specialties and subspecialties that exist in it, and the special surgeries that are performed..

This hospital is not an ordinary hospital and all the patients who come there are from all over the country, from the smallest villages around the country and the four corners of the country. Khomeini is from a city, so Imam Khomeini Hospital is not just a hospital belonging to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital is not a hospital in Tehran, Imam Khomeini Hospital is an Iranian hospital; Therefore, whatever service, whatever, whatever happens in Imam Khomeini Hospital, as if it happened in Kahnooj, Bushehr or Tabriz, it means that I now know from the villages that are under the map on the map and the villages that are near the border of the country, from there they get sick. Well, this hospital is not just a university hospital. Whatever is done in this hospital, if the ministry helps, if any other organ helps, it helps the whole country, and it is not a question of Tehran University of Medical Sciences at all..

The story of Children's Medical Center 2 (Hakim)

The story of Medical Center 2 goes back to the same four-year period that I am in charge of the university. Around the end of 1397, that is, about two years and a few months ago, Ms. Chatrooz brought Mr. Motahhari to my office. Mr. Motahhari said that our father had made a will that we had money and wanted to build a children's hospital. These gentlemen had gone to see the medical center and talked to Dr. Bedou and seen the crowds and the need of the community for the children's hospital and the oppression of these children and their cancers, their treatment and their problems. They came and we had the same office and meeting. In the first meeting we had with him, we talked about the fact that Tehran University of Medical Sciences had bought about twenty-one hectares of land from the foundation in the southern part of the city and in the eighteenth district, which is a very large plot of land in an almost empty area of ​​the city and a deprived area near Imam Stadium. Is Reza. We had that land and we decided to do different things there and use it as a university site. When Mr. Motahari came, we said we were ready to give you this land so that you could build a hospital, and because you want to build a children's hospital, I talked to the children's medical center from the very beginning, next to Imam Khomeini Hospital, which is one of the oldest medical centers. It is about sixty years old and dates back to the time of the late Dr. Gharib and Dr. Hassan Ahari. I told you from the beginning to leave Medical Center Two. Why? In order for it to be linked to the current medical center and for us to be able to use the faculty and scientific facilities and support of this scientific hub, if you give it another name, it cannot be done. They also accepted and signed a contract and agreement. Mr. Motahari was in such a hurry at that meeting that I was a little surprised and a little skeptical and said that all this haste may be abandoned like many other things, but fortunately now twenty-seven or eight months have passed since then and it was strange that this Mr. Motahhari really started working with the same intensity. A strange thing happened here. It was he who accepted the good of construction and gave the university the land and agreed to equip it. The university should provide medical equipment, but we also needed the help of a third force, which was the municipality of Tehran. And all the scheduling and expansion of the administrative systems in the administrative systems were done quickly, all this coordination between the three organs of the municipality, the university and Mr. Motahhari was done as a charity, and in the shortest possible time, the plan was approved and its water and electricity were repaired. The bite was correct. The excavation started and it is interesting that for the first time we got the permission to build a hospital in the government system. We went to the Article Five Commission and all that. Both the university and Mr. Motahari himself and the municipality of Tehran came in actively, and I have to congratulate them on this cooperation, because in less than twenty-seven months, a very stylish children's hospital called Medical Center 2 was put in parentheses for being satisfied. May Hakim be built in a region in the south of Tehran in a 100% required and deprived area.

The management of Medical Center 1 and 2 must be the same

Today, when I sat here in front of you, in fact, that hospital like Mehdi Clinic is a little ahead of Mehdi Clinic and its construction is completely completed, and only some works such as laboratory and radiology and these and its equipment remain, which was one of the plans that was built. Open with a patient bed. About About the management of Medical Center 2 The university also decided that the management of Medical Center 1 and 2 should be the same as Dr. Bedou and the university's pediatric team. In order for the science of Medical Center 1 to be there, if we did not do that - which is a very important point and I emphasized from the first day - it would have turned into a second or third grade hospital that, for example, only admitted patients with diarrhea and vomiting. And treat colds in the south of Tehran, which was not really what the university wanted and the region needed. Anyone could do that and build a clinic. We wanted a university hospital with the potential of a university and its specialized and sub-specialized operations to be referred so that a really deprived group of children could not be built for them after the revolution. Fortunately, this happened and this project is in its final stages. Mr. Motahari's family - may God bless them and have mercy on their father - are charities that I have never seen so good, so fast and fast, where you slept and worked day and night. And built and the university did its best. Many investments around it and construction were accepted by the university. At the same time, the university demolished a mechanized warehouse for the 13th of Aban, envisioned two faculties there, and envisioned a science and technology center for the university, like the Mehdi Clinic there. It is going through the last days, and after consulting with the pediatric group of the medical center hospital and with Dr. Bedou and his team, we saw that it is not possible to start with a sick patient and we need another two or three months, I applied here again and I wrote to the Minister in secret and announced that it was not possible to open Medical Center 2 with the patient and it would take at least three months for the start-up team that I described before and again to explain that the last construction worker had to leave the hospital because the team that built They are different from the group they want to start, the second group is doctors, nurses and services who do not work in construction..

The same thing should have happened at Medical Center 2, and there was still some work to be done. For a few months, at least one to three months, Dr. Bedou and some of his friends said that we need time to come and settle here, so it was impossible for the President to be there with the patient, so I very honestly informed the Minister and asked him to visit if you want. The visit will take place, but it will take two or three months for the patient to be admitted and hospitalized, and fortunately he accepted, and it was decided that, God willing, this will happen as long as I am in charge of the university, or now anyone who comes after me will visit there at the earliest opportunity. They set up with the startup team that will be stationed from Medical Center 1 and, in the shortest possible time, God willing, they will hospitalize the oppressed children in need..

This is actually a collection of information that I can give about these two hospitals in the last days and point out two or three points..

The construction of the hospital is done by a group with different characteristics. The construction team that said goodbye to the hospital. Usually it varies according to the number of beds, the location of the hospital, the type of hospital specialty and the capacity of that hospital and the number of days it takes for this hospital to reach full capacity. I was stationed there day and night for about six months. Now, if a hospital like children wants to be set up like this in the south of the city, it will take at least four or five months, and we can not call it a hospital that does not have the capacity to serve the patient. The next morning, when the television announces that it has opened here, people flock and demand treatment, and God forbid something happens to the people's children. No one is responsible, and a place like Mehdi Clinic takes at least six months to reach full capacity. And these are the two points that I have emphasized a lot and I have said before and I will always say that it is both my personal experience and my expert information and this expertise is ours. , Not elsewhere to comment on the opening of the hospital like this. This is really a professional opinion, this is a collection of words that I said.

Thanks to the President of the University

There is room for all those who are in the construction of Mehdi Clinic, whether those who are anonymous and whose names are not now, or those who are behind the scenes, from the worker, engineer, builder and company that built it to those at the university, in the ministry, in the bank And they helped in various organs until Mehdi Click was made. I thank you from the bottom of my heart..

 Thank you very much about Medical Center 2, and I especially want to thank the Motahhari family themselves, who made a very good and useful investment and worked hard. God willing, their father's soul will be happy and they will see good. From Tehran Municipality, Dr. Hanachi, Mr. Fayyaz, Mayor of District 18, and all the agents of the municipality and the city council who helped to build and prepare it faster. A crucial element in all these two projects and the efforts of Ms. Chatterrooz during these two projects outside of her responsibilities and outside of her field of work, they really helped around the clock, and at the end I thank the public relations of the university..

If we are going to build a hospital, we have to think about all the side issues

 The hospital should be seen comprehensively, the hospital is not just a bed for a patient to go to sleep on. There are services that provide services to doctors, nurses, services, facilities. The hospital is a complex. The group that serves in the hospital is also human, they want service themselves, it is not possible to hospitalize a patient to get good service, to be satisfied, but the group that serves this person to be satisfied, not to receive service themselves! If we are going to build a hospital, we have to think about all the fringe issues, we have to see the hospital comprehensively. The hospital is not an inn where you go up a flight of stairs to sleep on a bed. Get up in the morning and go. The hospital is a five-star hotel with all the facilities, parking, dining, amenities for the doctor, the nurse, the hospital staff and the patient. .

Where should parents who place their children in this hospital miles away sleep at night? They have to go to the inn, on the street, in the tent ?! In Imam Khomeini Hospital, we are also happy that in the last three or four years, its parking lot is almost ready and is being set up. Regarding the metro, I would like to say that Medical Center 2 is located somewhere next to the highway, which is a short distance from the third metro line. In our studies, we saw that if a station is added to the third line, it will be connected to the metro. In Mehdi Clinic, which was already a metro station, and fortunately there, with the efforts of the university and the hospital itself and the help of the municipality and the city council, they even named it after the Health Defenders Station.

Seyed Mahdi Fazeli

International relations expert