Iran: Outbreak of Swine Flu in several provinces and prisons

Iran: Outbreak of Swine Flu in several provinces and prisons

Fearful of social unrest, Iranian regime is hiding number of those afflicted or dead

The outbreak of Swine Flu in various provinces, especially in Kerman and Sistan-Baluchistan, has spread further and the flu has now reached Tehran, Hamadan, Boushehr and Shiraz. However, the antihuman regime ruling Iran has not taken any steps to fight this outbreak and treat the patients. It has not allocated any special budget to confront the flu and is publishing contradictory figures and false reports about the number of those afflicted and the victims in fear of social unrest.
On the one hand regime’s leaders claim that there had just been a few stricken and that the disease is under control and on the other hand, regime’s Ministry of Health has announced in contradictory remarks that following Kerman and Sistan-Baluchistan provinces, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Khuzestan, Chaharmahal Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Tehran, Semnan and Northern Khorassan are provinces that in the coming weeks will suffer from Swine Flu.
While Hassanpour, a Kerman parliamentarian, stated on December 8 that “over 30 people have lost their lives in Kerman and Sistan-Baluchistan provinces like the falling leaves in autumn” and Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, another representative from Kerman, noted a day later that 750 people with this flu have been hospitalized in Kerman’s hospitals, regime’s Ministry of Health announced after two weeks that the number of people who have died of the flu is 33. There are also reports that several people lost their lives to Swine Flu in the city of Mehran in Ilam border province, but regime’s officials deny the existence and outbreak of this disease in Ilam and border cities.
Hashemi, Rouhani’s Minister of Health, stated in an antihuman remark: “Always the VIRUS that causes flu is dangerous to some… there is no need for vaccination in this season” (Iranian regime state TV – December 8). According to Mehr state news agency on December 2, the drugs needed for this lethal disease are not available in pharmacies and hospitals. Other regime’s officials with the Health Ministry acknowledged that many hospitals in Ilam and Kermanshah do not have beds with special isolated respiratory equipment that is needed to treat the patients.
Children under 5, pregnant women, the elderly, as well as patients suffering from diabetics, heart disorders, and kidney and liver diseases are more vulnerable to this VIRUS. Regime’s inaction to prevent the outbreak of this disease puts the lives of these people at greater risk.
In recent years, France and European governments, as well as many other countries, have implemented widespread vaccination to bar the spread of this disease.
While the wealth of the Iranian people is spent by the Iranian regime on anti-nationalistic projects such as nuclear, export of fundamentalism, and internal suppression or is plundered by regime’s leaders and while the regime is spending exorbitant amounts of money to treat the terrorists it dispatches to Syria, Yemen and other countries in the region, attending to the problems of the Iranian people in such crisis has no place. The budget allocated to health and medical treatment or fundamental investments in public health in Iran RANKS amongst the worst in the world while the figures of victims of diseases ranks among the highest globally.
December 11, 2015