 A member of the planning and budget commission of Tehran's City Council criticized the process of aiding the victims of the Arg Mosque fire incident, Iran's Aftab Daily reported. Criticizing the unsuitable situation of hospitals where the injured are treated, Habib Kashani said: "A patient with only one percent of his body burnt is charged at least one million tomans ($1,000) in private hospitals. One of the victims of the Arg mosque with 80% of his body burnt couldn't be treated because he couldn't afford the 80 mln toman ($90,000) charge. Many hospitals have driven out the victims as they found that they have been injured in the Arg incident." Private hospitals assert that the government will not pay for the costs as it had earlier promised and that they cannot meet the treatment expenses on their own. Kashani called on Tehran's City Council to gather a report of the situation of the victims of the blaze and hand it over to the government. |