July 22, 2016
Daryoush Mehrjui, best known as the director of the film “The Cow,” has said filmmaker Abbas Kiaro-stami died because of his Iranian medical team’s negligence.
Speaking at Kiarostami’s funeral last week, Mehrjui said, “I’m angry that this [funeral] is the result of the carelessness and irresponsibility of the surgeons who killed Abbas Kiarostami.”
Weeping bitterly, Mehrjui said, “The murderers are among us.” He asked the Judiciary to bring the physicians to trial.
Ahmad, the elder son of Kiarostami, announced his family’s plan to file a lawsuit against the medical team.
Kiarostami was suffering from a severe gastrointestinal disease and died at a Paris hospital July 4.
Kiarostami was admitted in mid-March to Tehran’s Jam Hospital and underwent several operations. He left the hospital in late April.’
Later, he was admitted to Arad Hospital in Tehran, but on June 27, he decided to leave the hospital to seek medical treatment in Paris. An air ambulance flew him to Paris, where he died one week later.
The Iran Medical Council has assigned a special committee to examine Kiarostami’s medical file. The council has also asked Kiarostami’s family doctor to submit the file of Kiarostami’s French medical team to the committee.
The first session of the probe was held last Wednesday.
The Majlis Health Committee has announced it is scrutinizing the medical file as well.
