Tārīkh-i pizishkī i.e., Medical History

Abstract

Background and Aim: The Red Lion and Sun played an important role in treating diseases by establishing health centers. The Red Lion and Sun population was the first and largest charitable society in Iran, Which was responsible for many important tasks in matters related to relief in fortuitous and relief events, establishing hospitals and clinics, providing medicine and medical equipment, training nurses, caring for orphans, providing special programs for young people and some developmental activities inside and outside the country. One of the most important and first activities of the Red Lion and Sun in the first and second Pahlavi period was the construction and operation of medical centers and hospitals in different cities and towns. These measures did not follow a specific policy, and with the establishment of the Lion and Sun Society in the provincial capitals, the construction of the hospital began with the help of urban nobles, business people and charities.

Materials and Methods: Using the descriptive-analytical method and using historical and archival sources, this research seeks to find the answer to the role of the lion and the sun in establishing modern medical and health centers in the first Pahlavi period.

Findings: Red Lion and Sun population by creating mobile medical teams and complete equipment in all accidents and land and celestial disasters (earthquake-flood) with very valuable and important helps, It saved the lives of thousands of our compatriots from immediate danger, death and misery.

Concluseion: It seems that the Red Lion and Sun Society helped prevent the spread of diseases by setting up medical and health centers and paving the way for the establishment of hospitals and medical centers by setting up the Lion and Sun centers.