Survey of health and protection status of radiology centers covered by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences during 2010-2011

Ionizing radiations are one of the harmful factors in workplaces that can cause serious and irreversible damages on workers that are exposing to them. The purpose of this study was to determine the health and protection status of radiology centers Covered by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences during 2010-2011. This cross sectional study was performed on 29 active radiology centers covered by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.. In this study, in addition to inspection of radiology centers by executives, dosimetry was performed with Graetz-x5c dosimeter and standard checklist was completed. Checklist was included general and construction conditions also quality of protection equipments. In addition, the status of ray room, darkroom and control room were monitored. Finally, data analysis was done using descriptive statistics indexes including mean and frequency also by SPSS software. The results of this study showed that protective status of radiation room was favorable. Also, 100% of surveyed radiology centers had desirable protected ray room and dark room but only 55.17% of them had favorable store. From viewpoint of environmental health parameters, in most of centers the status of wastewater and solid waste collection and water plumbing was desirable and in accordance with healthy condition of public sites. Only 13.71% of centers performed quality control of their equipments and %95.55 of them had number of protective equipments for patients and their relatives; nonetheless, protective system for personnel was ideal. It can be concluded that there is a good coordination between academic centers about principles of radiation protection in all centers as well as radiographers. But due to lack of adequate and accurate monitoring of persons who are responsible for inspections, quality control of equipments, also protection for patients and their relatives was not appropriate. So, this issue must be considers seriously by authorities.