Iranian protests are overwhelming hospitals with injured people as the death toll, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, reaches 72 killed and over 2,300 detained.
Staff at hospitals in Iran said their facilities have become overwhelmed with injuries — including of people suffering from gunshot wounds — as anti-government protests are raging across the Islamic Republic, a report said.
A doctor from Tehran’s Farabi Hospital, which is the city’s main eye specialist center, told the BBC late Friday that the facility entered crisis mode, with emergency services slammed and non-urgent admissions suspended.
A medic from a hospital in the city of Shiraz also told the network that large numbers of injured people were being brought in despite the hospital not having enough surgeons to treat them. He added that many of those wounded had gunshot injuries to the head and eyes, according to the BBC.
As of Saturday, the death toll in the protests has grown to at least 72 people killed and over 2,300 others detained, according to the U.
