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Experiences from The Rudbar-Manjil Earthquake with an Emphasis on Health and Treatment Issues
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Seyyed Masoud Khatami   , Ahmad Shojaei , Ali Mehrabi-Tavana , Abbas-Ali Dehghani , Seyyed Ali Asghar Sadati , Mashallah Ayin |
| Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Ophthalmologist, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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The Rudbar earthquake occurred at 12:30 on June 21, 1980, with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale in Gilan province and the Rudbar and Manjil centers, resulting in the deaths of between 35,000 and 50,000 people and the injury of 60,000 to 105,000 others. Two hundred thousand residential units and public places and urban facilities were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Immediate action by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to address the situation of the injured and deceased and to restore the emergency conditions to normal was necessary, so national and international health and medical aid and relief were used to resolve the problems that had occurred. This article is being written after many years have passed since those days. |
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| Keywords: Disaster Planning, Earthquakes, Emergency Responders, Iran |
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Received: 2025/09/29 | Accepted: 2025/09/22 | ePublished ahead of print: 2025/09/29
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