Intentional delays in transferring of patients with the aim of tormenting them to death is a criminal act and its perpetrators must stand trial and be punished
In an anti-human act on Wednesday, 22 October 2014, the Iraqi agents delayed the transfer of patient Ms. Zahra Rabi’ee, an extremely urgent case, to the hospital for four hours. This happened at a time when the patient was suffering from cardiac ischemia and any delay in her transfer to the hospital could have cost her life.
At 10 a.m., Ms. Rabi’ee was taken to the Iraqi clinic inside the camp as an emergency case and once the Iraqi physicians took her ECG and determined that she was suffering from cardiac ischemia, they ordered her immediate transfer to the hospital in Baghdad. Despite the fact that the ambulance was ready, on leaving the camp, the Iraqi agents said that patient’s interpreter and nurse have to be replaced. Despite a replacement for the interpreter, the Iraqi agents insisted on intentional delay and asked for yet another interpreter. Finally after a four-hour delay and replacement of the interpreter for the third time, the patient was allowed to leave the camp.
The hampering and intentional delay making in transfer of patients to the hospital that has become a routine with no objective but to torment the patients to death and to psychologically torture the other residents is a criminal act whose perpetrators need to face justice and punishment.
The policy of imposing a medical blockade on the residents that has so far cost the lives of 21 residents is overseen by Faleh Fayyadh, Maliki’s National Security Advisor, at the behest of the Iranian regime. Reminding of the direct responsibility of the United States and the United Nations for the security and well-being of Camp Liberty residents, the Iranian Resistance is calling for immediate measures to end this criminal siege and secure the free access of residents to medical services.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 23, 2014
