Screening is one of the most significant factors in prevention of non-communicable diseases as well as rare diseases.
RADOIR NEWS- Dr. Hamid Reza Edraki, while interviewing with Iran’s Health Radio noted, ‘’Diagnosis is prior to treatment. In order to better control of rare diseases, RADOIR and its partners are trying to start early screening at the first stage of prevalence age which is started during pregnancy through simple ultra sound and advanced sonographies and also fetal MRI up to the forth month of pregnancy. Then, genetic and amniocentesis trials will be done and faulty gene will be identified for rare diseases diagnosis. But a great number of patients are born and we are trying to increase the quality of their treatment via screening. In my opinion, one of the critical stages is primary schools, especially first grade students to be afflicted by rare diseases. So, RADOIR and Ministry of Education has signed MOU in order to train healthcare providers for primary schools to detect patients and refer them to RADOIR for registration at SABNA, patient registry system at RADOIR. Then, Diagnosis, prevention and treatment actions will be done freely.’’
He continued, ‘’For this purpose, the deputy of science and research and the medical commission at RADOIR compiled Rare Diseases Atlas is included all the available rare diseases in Iran, all signs & symptoms, photos, diagnostic methods and even the prevention and treatment. If a patient refers to RADOIR for the first time, all the advance screenings will be done in the 18th and 24th weeks for free. All these stages help us to diagnose rare diseases accurately to start the necessary prevention actions.’’