President inaugurates healthcare, industrial, water projects in Zanjan
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a one-day visit to Zanjan Province on Thursday via video conference inaugurated several projects including two healthcare projects as well as a glassware production plant, a processing project, the impoundment of the Bolubin Dam, and residential housing units.
Pezeshkian officially opened the development project of Zanjan’s Shahid Beheshti Hospital, titled the Rajabali Moqadam Charity Project. The building serves as the 120-bed expansion phase of the Shahid Beheshti Hospital's Educational-Treatment Center, IRNA reported.
The medical center has been constructed on a 6,445-square-meter plot and comprises five main floors plus one basement level. All floors have been meticulously planned with the necessary specialized treatment and educational sections, incorporating the latest standards.
The ground floor houses a specialized psychiatric clinic and an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) section with 12 active beds. Floors one to three each contain 38 beds designated for child and adolescent psychiatry wards, as well as wards for men's, women's, and geriatric psychiatry, respectively. With the commissioning of this project, the Shahid Beheshti medical center will become the premier psychiatric educational and treatment facility in the northwest of the country, fulfilling a central role in enhancing the standard of educational and therapeutic services.
Burn injury center
The president also inaugurated the Zanjan burn injury center. This center covers 6,788 square meters across four floors. It features 28 burn inpatient beds, seven Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) beds, and seven emergency inpatient beds.
The ground floor of this section includes the emergency department, outpatient operating rooms, the BICU, and wash rooms. The basement houses operating rooms, recovery rooms, and medical equipment such as radiography and ventilators. The first and second floors contain the inpatient wards. This specialized burn trauma section has been designed and built according to the latest international standards and is equipped with negative pressure isolation rooms (to prevent the spread of contamination).
Furthermore, via video conference, Pezeshkian inaugurated several other projects: the Zanjan Khamseh Processing Project involving foreign investment and creating 140 jobs, and the impoundment of the Bolubin Dam.
The Bolubin Dam, considered one of the government's most important infrastructure projects in the water supply sector, aims to provide drinking water for the cities of Zarinabad, Halab, and 92 villages. With a reservoir capacity of 29.7 million cubic meters and a regulatory capacity of 17.5 million cubic meters, the dam can supply 3.5 million cubic meters of drinking water annually to Zarinabad, Halab, and 92 villages. Additionally, it will meet the water needs of regional industries up to 6 million cubic meters. A further 1.64 million cubic meters of downstream water rights will be supplied from this dam.
On Thursday evening, 8,661 urban and rural residential housing units in Zanjan were also inaugurated with Pezeshkian in attendance.
Also, during this one-day trip to Zanjan, the president inaugurated a glassware production plant in the northwestern province. This production unit has created jobs for 200 people in the manufacture of various types of glassware. The factory has an annual production capacity of 40,000 tons of glass containers used in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.