Introduction

Our interest and feeling serious need to entering into sterilization field directed our friendly group to establish JAM Sterilization Institute (Iranian Health Care Centres).

The Institute came into being with the aim of promoting sterile knowledge and consequently propagation of relevant culture throughout the country. Sterile clearly, the above mentioned aim could be achieved through connection with similar foreign institutions and organizations, taking benefit from their experiences, training, and engaging in researches in a continuous way. It is noteworthy that in compliance with the laws of the country as well as the capacities actually existing in the country, the experiences of other countries shall become native so that the way be paved for meeting the aim.

Till now, JAM Sterilization Institute has succeeded to organize several seminars in collaboration with universities and service centers.

By setting up its own website in 2007, the institute has started to establish good contacts with those interested to sterilization field and being furnished with their viewers.

Please visit the IHCC web site at http://www.sterile.ir for information about the IHCC - Iranian Health Care Centers in Persian.

IHCC Events

Upcoming Conferences and Seminars

4th IHCC Seminar of Sterilization Facts
14 September 2010 to 15 September 2010
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Past Conferences and Seminars

International IHCC Congress on Infection Control and Sterilization in Hospitals
08 July 2009 to 09 July 2009
Tehran Heart Center, Theran, Iran

IHCC Seminar 29 June 2009: Facts of Biological and Chemical Indicators
29 June 2009
Tabriz University & Razvi Hospital, Tabriz, Iran
Lecturer: Dr. Hamid Zare

IHCC Seminar 4 May 2009: Tracing sterilizers and life time of sterilized packs
04 May 2009
Mashhad University, Mashhad, Iran
Lecturers: Dr. Mohamad Nickhou, Dr. Hamid Zare

IHCC Seminar 5 March 2009: Methods for decreasing infection caused by wrong sterilization
05 March 2009
Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Lecturer: Dr. Hamid Zare

IHCC Contact

JAM Sterilization Institute
Office 23, No. 29, 7th St
YousefAbad St.
1433643958, Tehran
Iran

Tel: +98-21-8803 0909
Fax: +98-21-8870 5228
Email:

Web Site Address

http://www.sterile.ir

Information about Iran

Statistics

• Area: 1.648 million km² (land 1.636 million km², water: 12,000 km²)
• Population: 65,875,223 (July 2008)
• Capital: Tehran
• Languages: Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
• Religion: Muslim 98% (Shi'a 89%, Sunni 9%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i) 2%
• Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast
• Time Zone: GMT +3.5hrs
• Currency: Iranian Rial [IRR]

Location

Iran is in the Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea. With a total of 5,440 km land boundaries, Iran shares borders with Afghanistan (936 km), Armenia (35 km, Azerbaijan (432 km), Azerbaijan-Naxcivan (exclave, 179 km), Iraq (1,458 km), Pakistan (909 km), Turkey (499 km) and Turkmenistan (992 km).