Women's News Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery

Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery

A young woman was given the wrong gas instead of Oxygen after giving birth to her twins in a Tehran hospital.

The news has just recently leaked out that on the morning of January 17, 2016, a young woman refered to Tehran's Chamran Hospital because of having pain. Doctors in the emergency room diagnosed that she needed to undergo C-section, so they had her taken to the operation room.

After giving birth to healthy twins, the mother was in need of receiving Oxygen, but she suffered severe burns as soon as the Oxygen mask was put on her face because she had been given N2O and CO2 instead of Oxygen.

Iran: New case filed against Nargess Mohammadi

political prisoner Nargess Mohammadi

Prison guards who transferred political prisoner Nargess Mohammadi to hospital for treatment have filed a complaint against her, arousing her protest.

Ms. Mohammadi, Vice President of the League of Human Rights Advocates in Iran, wrote an open letter in November to Tehran’s Prosecutor upon return from hospital and complained about the way she had been treated by her guards. She said they chained her to the bed and did not leave the room when she had to take off her clothes for medical examination or surgery. Finally, she refused to go to the operation room after her guard refused to leave the operation room and returned to prison without final diagnosis of her illness.

The new complaint may be related to verbal exchanges between Ms. Mohammadi and her guards in such tense situations at the hospital.

In another development, it was reported prison guards prevented her relatives from giving Ms. Mohammadi the pictures of her twins who have been sent abroad and she has not been in contact with since June. In response to her request to her inquiry, prison guards answered, “We have been instructed to deal with you in this manner.