Caregivers help the injured protesters outside hospital structures, where they risk being arrested.
by Ghazal Golshiri
From the first days of the wave of protest in Iran, triggered by the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, on September 16, during her police custody for a “poorly worn” veil, a large number of demonstrators injured in the Eyes went to the hospital where Fariba (a pseudonym intended to protect the interested party) works as a doctor. At the end of September, with his colleagues and the head of the department specializing in diseases and eye surgery, he was decided to set up a system to protect the wounded from a possible arrest by the secret services.
“Our hospital is private and most of the wounded demonstrators who went to us had just flew a university or public hospital where the agents working for the services are omnipresent, explains this 40 -year -old Iranian. We decided not to Mention words as “balls”, “bursts” in the relationship of these patients. Instead, we put “safe trauma” and “accidents at work”. “
Fariba and his colleagues also decided to treat these injured for free. So far they have taken care of a hundred people. “This number shows that, in the repression that affects the demonstrators in Iran, it is very common to aim for them with plastic bullets as well as rubber bullets. He who shoots knows exactly what he does,” explains Fariba. This wave of repression has already killed at least 503 civilians, according to human rights organizations. The number of injured remains impossible to assess.
lifeless body of a doctor
Apart from hospitals, there are many doctors to help, individually, to patients affected in demonstrations. Working in his office located in a poor district in the south of Tehran, Hossein (a pseudonym also) frequently said on his Instagram page, followed by his patients, that he could go to the home of anyone who was injured in a demonstration.
With the help of his relatives, this 38 -year -old general practitioner has set up a kitty so that they can provide these injured the treatments they need. On Instagram, the doctor also teaches, in clear terms, how to heal light wounds, fix the fractured members and make a cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The days when a demonstration takes place, Hossein descends with one or two colleagues in the street, taking with him some syringes, physiological serum and sterile compresses. “The first weeks, he says, we took care of the people who had breathed tear gas or who had received battle strokes, most of them in the head. But quickly, the demonstrators more often had the grenaille of lead [cartridges for hunting] in the neck, in the head and in the abdomen, drawn very closely. In these cases, we do not have time to take care of it. They are very quickly arrested. “
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