Construction of Iran’s first nuclear hospital to start on Monday

EghtesadOnline: The construction of Iran’s first nuclear hospital will be inaugurated on Monday, May 15 in the presence of head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian health minister Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi and a group of Austrian officials.

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14 May 2017

The ceremony will be held in Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Health in Alborz Province, Iran.

The Iran’s nuclear hospital will have the most advanced radio equipment. It will not just be a hospital, but a nuclear research center, where nuclear engineers will work on medical issues, according to ISNA.

Proton therapy and Carbon therapy are used for recognition of cancer and preventing the destruction of healthy cells.

Iran is the 6th country in the world that has the technology.