Whom to be trusted

Three months ago, my mother made a trip to Iran to be treated in her eyes as no specialist oculist available in or the whole Iraq. She suffered a lot to get a passport and more than that for her daughter to accompany her .My younger brother who had a passport in advance took them to Tehran as we heard that the Iranian capital has many good doctors and hospitals to deal with a case just like hers.

She went there ten days before the new year of 2008 and one day before Eid Al-Dha .So ,the family missed three members during all that time ,but the price supposed to be so small to have my mothers’ eyesight back again .She didn’t want to go Iran as we suffered a lot of them especially during the first war and thousands years ago .Also there is something inside telling her that they are not to be trusted ;however, she agreed to go when my brother insisted on taking her to Iran> as there is no other option.

We know that Jordan hospitals have the best doctors and most of them are Iraqis who left Iraq for different reasons and it is an Arab country which had got great benefits from Iraq wars to get its economics flourished while going there is impossible as the Iraqi people are not welcomed in Amman and we have no Jordanian embassy in Baghdad to make the situation be less difficult.

Thus, mother, sister and brother had the visa from the Iranian embassy in Baghdad to go there within two days! Their trip took 17 hours to Tehran where they settled in and to have my mother treated .The next  day ,my brother took my mother to Farabi hospital which is considered one of the best in the capital for the supreme specialists .Dr. Ali Mosawi, the oculist who was in charge of treating her, examined her eyes and he said that she needed an operation in her two eyes ,but the first one would be this week and the next would be three months after the first operation.

Three days later my mother had the operation in her retina as she suffered from a retinal detachment and there was extra liquid over it. Consultants came around mom to see her and they were asking her about her condition and whether she can see or not. She told them that she can hardly see and they said that is normal after the operation and the condition would be better by time.

Mother at that time was talking with herself “Why do they have such a number of doctors and what are they doing? In Iraq, we have the doctor who can diagnose the case and treat by himself? Are they trying to get more money by having more doctors or to make sure of the result? She couldn’t find the answer for all her questions in Iran till she came to her home Iraq.

She found out that the Iranian doctor Ali Mosawi didn’t make the operation it needed in her retina when she went to one of the oculist clinic in Iran who said that he would go to the north to settle there within a week of that time. He said that there is no sign in the retina and it hasn’t been touched which means that the Iranian doctor had deceived us and he didn’t have the operation for my mother but removing the extra liquid from the right eye.

The Iraqi doctor said I can make this simple thing here in my clinic just now but for the retina it needs expensive medical equipments which Iraqi doctors and hospitals don’t have while the Iranians have. It was a shock for us and a disaster for mom. She said “ I didn’t want to go to Iran from the beginning ,but you insisted on that.

I suffered for 12 days .The distance was so far and the weather was so cold and my son and daughter left their offices to be with me and the result is this” “ I felt it from the beginning ,but I tried to convince myself  it is not having all these expenses and efforts on me and I would say no I can’t see” .

I totally agree with mom and the reason made me write this blog is that we fed up with our attempts to find a specialist oculist to treat my mom in Iraq. We heard that there are some Iranian doctors in Arbilin Kurdstan region come to do such operations, but no more for the Iranians’.

The thing that pushed to write it just now is the Iranian president’s visit to Iraq which had many promises in hand ,but the results would be nothing. 

Comments

[Adam]

I'm very sad to hear that you were decieved and basically robbed by the Iranians. You would think doctors of all people would stick to their oaths and "Do no harm" and heal the sick. It's unfortunate that so many specialists and doctors have left Iraq, leaving your population without the support you desperately need. Hopefully the situation over there (security wise) will continue to improve which will allow for further improvements to infrastructure (especially water and power)... I just wish those "intellectuals" and professionals would return to Iraq. Your people desperately need these type of people to get your society back on track. Peace be upon you and your people.

[Mee]

Dear, it is painful for me to admit that what you said is totally true..it is painful cause here, i mean in Iraq there is a real shortage of specialists . I had some information that in Kurdistan region in Iraq,a hospital brought the new instrument which uses the laser to treat the in Myopia the eyes , what hurts i knew later that some people tried to treat their eyes going to that hospital but unfortunately they were about to be blind..as you said no more specialist doctors in here. I'm in need to have a laser surgery in my eyes but I'm thinkin' about it hundreds of time , prefer to be a half blind person than being a totally blind girl.

Thanks for revealing our painful reality.
Mee

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