Iranian medical personnel and eyewitnesses have described harrowing scenes from the week to pro-reform outlet IranWire.
In Shiraz on Friday, medical workers had been attending to a lady who was shot within the head. Hooked as much as a ventilator, blood is seen smeared on the facet of her head.
“I have never seen such scenes in my life,” one of many medical workers is heard saying in a video shared with IranWire. “The shameless people shot (her) in the head and neck. Do you have any idea how many patients we have until now?”
A health care provider in Neyshabur stated safety forces shot at protesters from the highest of buildings on Friday.
“They are shooting from rooftops and terraces. They are not on the street where people can see and run away,” she says in an audio message to IranWire. “They even shoot at ordinary pedestrians.”
The physician stated a household of six passing by was shot – so was an aged girl’s nurse as she was on her means residence.
“How many more are going to die here?” she says.
One medical supply says not less than six individuals had been killed following a protest at Tehran’s Qala’e Hassan Khan space on Thursday. Each of them had been shot within the head and neck, the supply stated in recordings despatched to IranWire.
A day later, protests in the identical space had been additionally met with a heavy-handed crackdown, with safety forces capturing at protesters from the highest of a constructing, in keeping with the medical supply. Protesters set fireplace to a financial institution and tried to take a base belonging to the paramilitary Basij pressure, the supply stated and added that an 11-year-old boy was shot and would “probably lose his testicle.”
After safety forces fired at individuals in Najafabad on Thursday, the injured had been taken to Montazeri hospital, in keeping with a medical supply there.
“People rushed to the hospital to take the bodies of their children, and they took their children and buried them in the same clothes,” the medical workers member stated. In Iranian Muslim tradition lifeless our bodies are sometimes washed then lined in a white cotton material earlier than burial.
Mohammad Lesanpezeshki, a Chicago physician educated in Tehran, informed NCS that his mates working in Iranian hospitals are overwhelmed as extra protesters are injured in authorities crackdown. Before the internet blackout minimize off contact, his mates informed him what they noticed.
“One person who’s an orthopedic surgeon said that they had multiple bodies in their ED (emergency department), at least 30 people that were shot in their limbs,” stated Lesanpezeshki.
The pal informed Lesanpezeshki that his hospital in Tehran ran out of blood for transfusions, and known as one other physician at a facility close by to test if that they had any.
The physician on the different hospital was “crying on the phone because they have no blood supplies,” Lesanpezeshki stated.
His mates additionally informed him that Farabi Eye Hospital in Tehran skilled a selected surge in sufferers with pellets lodged of their eyes, with roughly 200 to 300 sufferers. Lesanpeseshki’s mates had been all working as physicians throughout the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, and noticed related albeit fewer eye accidents then.
Prior to the internet shutdown on Thursday, different medical sources informed IranWire that not less than 500 individuals went to hospitals in Tehran with eye accidents.