Case Building for Mahsa Amini
The case building for Mahsa Amini is happening while Mahsa Amini’s family claims she had no medical history, but aligned media insist that her medical history includes various illnesses. On one side, a brain scan image of Mahsa Amini is released, indicating skull fracture, bleeding, and brain edema. On the other side, media close to conservatives publish images of a medical record attributed to Mahsa Amini, claiming she had brain surgery as a child.
Meanwhile, the medical staff at Kasra Hospital, in a statement which was later removed, refrains from detailing the case and states that the medical staff, due to adhering to the Global Patient Rights Charter, has no right to release any information regarding the patient’s treatment process during hospitalization except to immediate family and judicial authorities with a permit.
For this reason, even the media did not receive information, and only immediate relatives were fully informed about the treatment process and the patient’s condition. However, suddenly, details of the alleged case were read in a radio program.
How Did Mahsa’s Medical File End Up in Certain Media?
Conservative media, citing the site or channel ‘Khabar Fori’, claim access to her medical file related to 2012 in the city of Saqqez, which shows she was hospitalized for a period due to what is referred to as brain surgery and also had a heart condition.
In a situation where we lack a centralized health and medical system for accessing individuals’ medical records, it is unclear how real or fabricated this alleged file is, which has quickly ended up in the hands of some media.
On the other hand, the program ‘Waves of Doubt’ on Radio Goftogoo deals with the behavior analysis of foreign media on various topics. In its 124th episode, it 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 the tactics of foreign media for crisis creation in Iran, emphasizing the 72-hour media actions regarding the late Mahsa Amini.
Kasra Hospital File in the Hands of a Political Expert
The noteworthy point was that in part of this program, Mohammadian claimed to be reading part of Mahsa’s medical file prepared by Kasra Hospital. He said that in the physical examination, the doctor and head nurse confirmed that the head, face, and neck lacked signs of injury and skull and facial fractures based on bone palpation and CT scan observations.
The range of neck movements was natural and lacked signs of injury. Mahsa Amini had a history of a brain tumor and underwent 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 allow some examinations.
This is while Mahsa’s father, in one of his recent interviews, pointed to bruising on his daughter’s legs and stated that he asked the hospital authorities to have the forensic doctor examine the bruising on Zhina’s legs, but unfortunately, his request was not answered. He asked the authorities to follow up and hear their voice. Her brother had also previously confirmed the existence 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 matter, to the extent that the head of the Hormozgan Medical Council, Dr. Hossein Karampour, also published a letter to the National Medical Council confirming that Mahsa Amini’s symptoms match those related to head trauma and bleeding from it and do not match the reasons given by some institutions that declared the cause as a stroke.
This is while Mahsa Amini’s family has repeatedly stated that their daughter had no underlying illnesses and that what is said about a history of epilepsy and heart disease is entirely false.
Detained Girls Come to Television
Another important point that Mohammadian, the radio expert, mentioned is that interviews are supposed to be conducted with the girls who were in the van, while Mahsa’s father, Amjad Amini, said that many of the girls who were with Mahsa inside contacted me and said she was beaten. The ‘Ham Mihan’ newspaper 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 even at this ceremony, we did not want them to come.
And the mother of two of the girls who were first driven into the Guidance Patrol van with Zhina and then released says she does not want to talk, and her daughters also do not speak. With a lump in her throat, she says we have lost one; we do not want to lose more. We have young daughters and sons, and it is unlikely that 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 record is confidential and the hospital, according to the published notice, has no right or permission to release it except to the family and judicial authorities, then how did this file end up in the hands of a seemingly minor media expert? Kasra Hospital should first explain the truth or falsehood of the information presented with reference to the alleged file and secondly should 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 an individual claiming to be a political and media expert have access to the details of this file, even if it is accurate? It seems the last hope for uncovering the truth is the report that the forensic doctor has promised to release in three weeks. We hope this legal institution is more committed to the truth than to expediency.
This Gate has published other articles in this case that you can read.
- The Crime of Guidance Patrol in Raisi’s Government
- A Simple Incident: The Conservative Narrative of Mahsa Amini’s Death