4030 Call System

4030 Call System () briefly "4030-system" is the name of an Iranian telephone system which has been created since the first days of coronavirus outbreak in Iran for expert consulting and corona-screening (of coronavirus suspects). There are 2000 phone lines and 2,200 doctors and paramedics throughout Iran who are working at this call system, and answer the corona-related questions.
4030 call system has been launched by the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order (Barakat Tel) and in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and Iran Telecommunication in order to screen Iranian families at the field of COVID-19.
So far, more than 20 million calls have been made to the telephone-system (4030). Iran's Head of 4030 call system, Reza Mazhari mentioned that they receive diverse calls daily, and said: ... these calls include both medical and psychological questions; 40 percent of these questions are related to people's anxiety about COVID-19, and 40 percent are questions for increasing the awareness regarding the novel virus. "This center could decrease people's reference to the hospital.", he added.