Tehran Times Christoph Hamelmann, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Iran, said that WHO will highly support Irans efforts on reducing road fatalities. Hamelmann made the remarks on the sidelines of the 24th International Conference on Safe Communities held in Tabriz on August 22-25. One of key areas being discussed in the conference ...

Tehran Times - Traffic related accidents brought heavy economic burden amounting to 20 trillion rials (about $480 million) for the country in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), Tehran traffic police chief Teymour Hosseini has said. Road crashes and casualties annually constitute about 5 percent of the countrys gross domestic product,...

Tehran Times Some 50 percent of deaths in Iran are premature, said Deputy Health Minister Reza Malekzadeh. Approximately, 375,000 deaths occur per year in the country and around half of them are premature, that is half the people die under the age of 70, said Malekzadeh in an interview with IRNA on Saturday. The number of premature deaths in ...