As protests in Iran continue and Iranian authorities issued co-ordinated warnings to protesters, a doctor and medic at two hospitals yesterday said their facilities were overwhelmed with injuries.
One doctor said a Tehran eye hospital had gone into crisis mode, while the BBC also obtained a message from a medic in another hospital saying it did not have enough surgeons to cope with the influx of patients.
A doctor from Iran, who contacted the BBC via Starlink satellite Internet, said Farabi Hospital, Tehran’s main eye specialist centre, had gone into crisis mode, with emergency services overwhelmed. Non-urgent admissions and surgeries were said to have been suspended, and staff called in to deal with emergency cases.
The BBC also obtained a video and audio message from a medic in a hospital in the south-west city of Shiraz on Thursday. The medic said large numbers of injured people were being brought in, and the hospital did not have enough surgeons to cope with the influx. He claimed many of the wounded had gunshot injuries to the head and eyes.
A health worker at another hospital in Tehran also said that their patients included gunshot wound victims.
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