16/08/2025
In a tragic irony, the 27-year-old Saba Rasool, the first Kashmiri MBBS student to safely return home two months ago during the escalated phase of Israel-Iran, has tragically passed away in an Iranian hospital. Her family now awaits her body, and answers to the allegations of medical negligence.
Saba Rasool, an MBBS fourth year student at Urmia University of Medical Sciences died of an illness, her friends and colleagues alleging the hospital did not do their best to save her life. According to reports, Saba complained of severe nausea, vomiting, and pain on August 13. She was rushed to a local hospital in Urmia where her condition rapidly deteriorated. Her colleagues have alleged it took three hours for an ambulance to arrive, and more time was wasted before she was assigned a bed in the emergency ward. She was reportedly kept on normal saline and painkillers. “We requested for a bed in the gastrointestinal ward, but it was not provided,” a colleague of hers is quoted as saying. Later shifted to the International Patient Department, Saba suffered seizures and tachycardia, necessitating admission to ICU. She passed away soon after in the wee hours of August 15.
