NCRI – The criminal and inhuman medical siege imposed on Ashraf is causing catastrophe in dire and irreversible human damages. Right now there are over 30 emergency cases for surgery that the Iraqi government has been preventing for a long time their transfer to specialized hospitals in Baghdad and Baquba. A number of these patients have been waiting for their surgeries for over a year now, but every time, by the orders of the Iraqi Prime Ministry Committee tasked to suppress Ashraf, Iraqi forces refuse to transfer them to hospitals.
Some of the patients are the injured of July 2009 and April 2011 attacks who are suffering severely from their injuries and need bone grafts. Ms. Mitra Ilkhani, injured in April 2011, and Mr. Amir Kazemi, injured on 28 July 2009, need bone graft surgery where hit by bullets.
Eight individuals are cancerous patients in need of surgery or iodine therapy. Mr. Hamid Reza Massoumi’s case is an emergency and according to physicians he should have been operated on last week, but his transfer to the hospital has been prevented. Ms. Elham Fardy, Messrs. Khalil Poorshafe, Mostafa Ganjei, and Ali Shahkarami are among these patients.
Eleven of the aforementioned patients, including ladies Shamsi Zargaran, Tahereh Nouri and Maliheh Toutounchian, and Mr. Mahmoud Mombini are on the verge of going blind with some of them having waited for their surgeries for over a year. Some of these patients are suffering from cataract that if not immediately operated on would completely lose their eye sights.
Ladies Houri Sayyedi, Hengameh Haj Hassan and Massoumeh Eghbal, and Mr. Amir Mazrae are patients with internal or kidney problems that have been waiting for a long time for their surgeries and are deprived of all medical care.
While emphasizing that the Iraqi government is responsible for any human losses regarding Ashraf’s patients, the Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations, the United States, and the EU member states to transfer these patients to outside of Iraq and save their lives.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 17, 2012