Political situation 2. Iran has good health care in cities, while it is generally insufficient in rural areas. The educational system is of uneven quality. One doctor for each 3,100 individual is quite low. There is one hospital bed for each 800 individual, which is also fairly bad, as many of these hospital beds are attended by inadequate personnel.
Programs started by the governments have in some cases proven to be very successful.
Drug abuse is a serious problem in Iran, due to imports of extremely cheap heroin and opium from Afghanistan. This is a situation out of control, and estimates run as high as 2 million for the number of addicted. The schooling system of Iran is working moderately well, but many kids are not attending school. This has often to do with priorities made by the parents, as schools are easy to attend, and found in even small villages. Iran has around 100 institutions on university level, of which some are of very high standards.