The Shocking Narrative of the Blind in the Negah Hospital: Severely Blind, We Pay Diyah!

 The blinding of nine patients who had referred to Negah Specialized Hospital in Tehran for cataract treatment was a shocking incident whose dimensions are currently being investigated under the supervision of Judge Saeed Ahmadbeigi, the head of the capital's Medical Crimes Prosecutor's Office.

Mohammadreza Hassani, one of the victims:

When the hospital officials found out that we had filed a complaint, instead of appeasing us and visiting us, they also threatened us through people who introduced themselves as the hospital's lawyers. For example, one of the medical staff members said, 'It's okay if they went blind and we will pay blood money.'"

I told my lawyer to tell the same medical staff that I was willing to blind one of his eyes and give him two eyes in exchange for blood money. Unfortunately, during this time, neither the medical staff nor the hospital officials asked about any of us and did not know what problems and hardships the nine of us were dealing with. In these days, which coincided with the birthday of the Imams, they did not send us a single box of sweets and did not console us.