AL-ZAHRA HOSPITAL

Health Tourism

Medical Tourism or Health Tourism includes travelling to another countrie in order to be under different surgeries and receive various medical and optolmological health care and eyelid surgery. The low cost of health care, searching for the experienced specialist physicians, suitable quality of health services, safety and short waiting time for treatment are the main reasons for travellers with treatment purposes. 

   The low expenses of medical and health care services in Iran is one of the advantages in Health Tourism domain. Another reason of health tourism development in Iran is having skilled physicians and trained medical staff in the hospitals in camparison to another middle-east countries. Iran is the leading country in developing health science in the region.

Al-Zahra Eye Hospital located in Zahedan, southeast of Iran, was established in 1988 as a specialty eye hospital but later the hospital gradually expanded to a subspecialty hospital. Al-Zahra is a 109-bed eye Hospital including 104 inpatient and 5 emergency beds. In the clinic of this subspecialty hospital, patients are admitted daily in five fields including: Posterior segment, anterior segment, Strabismus and Oculoplastic, Neuro-ophthalmology, and Optometry.

In addition, since the establishment of this hospital until the beginning of this year (2022), 10 faculty members of the Ophthalmology Department of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences have performed more than 116,000 surgeries