Case Building for Mahsa Amini
The case building for Mahsa Amini is ongoing while Mahsa Amini’s family states that she had no history of illness, yet aligned media outlets insist that her medical history included various illnesses. On one hand, a brain scan image of Mahsa Amini is released showing skull fracture, bleeding, and brain edema, but on the other hand, media close to conservatives publish images of a medical file attributed to Mahsa Amini claiming she had brain surgery as a child.
Meanwhile, the medical staff of Kasra Hospital, in a statement which they later removed, refrained from detailing the case and stated that the medical staff, due to adherence to the global patient rights charter, has no right to disclose any information regarding the patient’s treatment process during hospitalization, except to immediate family and judicial authorities if permission is granted.
For this reason, even the media did not receive information, and only immediate family members were fully informed about the treatment process and the patient’s condition. However, suddenly, the details of the alleged case were read on a radio program.
How did Mahsa’s medical file end up in specific media?
Conservative media, citing the site or channel Khabar-e-Fouri, claimed access to her medical file related to 2012 in Saqqez, indicating that she had been hospitalized for a while due to the mentioned brain surgery and also had a heart condition.
Given that we lack a centralized health and medical system for accessing individuals’ medical files, it is unclear how real or fabricated this alleged file is, which quickly reached some media.
On the other hand, the radio program ‘Waves of Doubt’ on Radio Goftogoo, dealing with the behavior analysis of foreign media on various topics, in its 124th episode invited two individuals named Alireza Davoodi, a senior media and cognitive sciences expert, and Dr. Morteza Mohammadian, a political and media issues expert, to discuss foreign media tactics for crisis creation in Iran, emphasizing the 72-hour media actions on the late Mahsa Amini’s case.
Kasra Hospital’s File in the Hands of a Political Analyst
An intriguing point was that in part of this program, Mohammadian claimed to be reading part of Mahsa’s medical file prepared by Kasra Hospital. He stated that in the external examination, the doctor and head nurse confirmed that the head, face, and neck were free of signs of trauma and fracture in the skull and face based on bone palpation and CT scan observations.
The range of neck movements was normal and free of signs of trauma. Mahsa Amini had a history of a brain tumor and had surgery at age 5, with surgical marks on the right side of her forehead. She had a history of diabetes and used several medications. Her father did not permit some examinations.
Meanwhile, Mahsa’s father, in one of his recent interviews, mentioned the presence of bruises on his daughter’s legs and stated that he asked the hospital authorities to have the forensic doctor investigate the bruises on Zhina’s legs, but unfortunately, they did not respond to my request. Our demand from the authorities is to follow up, to hear our voice. Her brother had previously confirmed the presence of these bruises.
Mahdiar Saeedian was also a doctor who, for the first time, rejected any stroke or heart attack and announced that based on evidence and signs, the cause of death was a blow to the skull.
Although he was later forced to delete his tweet, this was not the end of the story. To the extent that the head of the Hormozgan Medical System, Dr. Hossein Karampour, also confirmed by publishing a letter to the National Medical System Organization that Mahsa Amini’s symptoms matched those related to head trauma and bleeding resulting from it and did not match the reasons some institutions gave, which declared the cause as a stroke.
This is while Mahsa Amini’s family has repeatedly stated that their daughter had no underlying illness and that what is said about a history of epilepsy and heart disease is entirely false.
Arrested Girls Come to Television
Another important point that Mohammadian, the radio expert, mentioned is that interviews are to be conducted with the girls who were in the van, while Mahsa’s father, Amjad Amini, said many of the girls who were with Mahsa inside contacted me and said she was beaten, and the newspaper Ham-Mihan in its report quoted the mother of one of the girls who was with Zhina at the time of arrest, writing that her daughters were scared, any of them could have been in Zhina’s place, and we didn’t want them to come even to this ceremony.
And the mother of two of the girls who were first driven into the morality police van with Zhina and then released says she doesn’t want to speak, and her daughters don’t speak either. She says with tears, ‘We lost one, we don’t want to lose more. We have young daughters and sons, it’s unlikely the outcome of the interview with those girls will resemble these narratives.’
Wasn’t it Confidential?
The main question is if the patient’s medical file is confidential and the hospital, according to the published notice, has no right or permission to release it except to family and judicial authorities, then how did this file end up in the hands of a seemingly minor media expert? Kasra Hospital must first explain the truth or falsehood of the information presented based on the alleged file and second, must file a complaint against the radio and that expert.
How and why, when the hospital staff claim they are not allowed to release information from the file, does a person claiming to be a political and media issues expert have access to the details of this file, even if true? It seems the last hope for uncovering the truth is the report that the forensic medicine has promised to release in three weeks. Hopefully, this legal body will be committed to truth over expediency.
This Gate has published other articles on this case that you can read.
- The Morality Police Crime in Raisi’s Government
- A Simple Incident: Conservatives’ Narrative of Mahsa Amini’s Death