The complete water outage at Ferdows Hospital, a 280-bed medical center, has left patients in need of surgery waiting for days and has forced the suspension of operating rooms.
The state-run ILNA news agency reported on Thursday, August 14, that only about two years after the official opening of the 280-bed “Qassem Soleimani” Hospital in Ferdows, which was inaugurated with promises of improving healthcare services, the facility is now facing a serious water crisis, causing surgeries to be postponed due to the outage.
ILNA wrote that the crisis is currently being managed through emergency water supply by fire department tankers. Fire trucks temporarily fill the hospital’s reservoir to meet part of its needs, but this solution only lasts a few hours.
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The agency, citing on-site observations by its reporter and statements from patients’ relatives, reported that the complete water outage has disrupted the hospital’s normal operations, leaving surgery patients in limbo. It added that all departments, from restrooms and washbasins to operating rooms, are without water.
A traffic accident patient hospitalized in Ferdows told ILNA: “Since Tuesday night, August 12, after I was transferred to this hospital, they told us that the fracture surgery requiring a plate would not be performed the next day, Wednesday, because there was no water.”
The patient continued: “It was planned that if the water supply returned on Thursday, August 14, the surgery would be carried out. But today, with the water still cut off, I have to wait until next week and bear the pain with painkillers.” One of the patient’s companions also told ILNA that the hospital does not even have water for basic washing.
A major part of Iran’s water crisis stems from unsustainable management of resources and consumption. All natural resources in the country are controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and regime-affiliated institutions, a situation that has led to water bankruptcy and the growing electricity shortages across Iran.
