ROJHELAT, XANE – A year is spent on fire incident in Shinawe (Shin Abad) School, a village of Xane (Piranshahr) but it has not healed yet the wounds of the Shinawe Children. On Wednesday Dec 5th 2012, 38 children (10-12 years) were fire due to non-standard heating systems and fire heaters of class, consequently two of them died due to severe injuries.
On 9 Dec Seyran Yegane 10 years old, passed away in cause of severe burn of the lung also her classmate Sarya Resulzade 10 years old, was other victim who died resulting in damage to his respiratory tract and kidneys in Tabriz Hospital 28 Dec. 40 days after the incident, doctors were forced to amputate the fingers of three students in the accident due to the severity of the burn and organ transplant rejection.
In the accident, while the Kurdish people (in Rojhelat) put forward protests regarding the resignation of the Education Minister, described the class heating system “Standard” by education officials. On that time a correspondent asked Mr Babaei Minister of Education: whether authority will dismiss you? What about you? Whether we dismiss you when you could have covered up the imperfection of safety equipment in Iran’s schools? Babaei replied to evade responsibility.
On that time Resul Xizri (Rasoul Khezri) MP for Piranshahr and Sardasht in Iranian Parliament, who was calling for resignation of the Education Minister, has an interview newly with Qanoon Newspaper about treatment conditions of children:
“Some of these girls are treated in Tehran Moheb Hospital and others require more than 50 plastic surgery therefore we have asked medical team to launch a health and medical centre “continuous and guaranteed” even after the termination of our representation in parliament. Some of girls have burn 40 to 50 percent require multiple surgeries on their hand and face. Despite of medical team efforts plus numerous surgeries, but it is a long-term process the improvement of these children” expressed Xizri.
“We have two main demands on the situation of children from Rouhani government: First, these children have been operated in best facility and best doctor as well, second requirement that be considered a financial support as pension for these girls. In case of perpetrators of this incident, we pursued the case through both the Iran Parliament (ICA) and Education Commission but not given a clear answer from the Secretary of Education” acknowledged Xizri in response to the Qanoon Newspaper.
Every year with the onset of winter occur such incidents in old schools of Iran while “State Organization of Schools Renovation, Development and Mobilization” with a budget of two thousand billion rials per year, is responsible for retrofit, repair, maintenance of buildings and equipment schools.
According to Iranian Law, Ministry of Education has responsibility to provide students safety in schools. Currently, there are 150 thousand non-safe classes in Iran which is suffer from inadequate heating system in addition, the capacity of student in these classes is inconsistent with the world educational norms which increased the risk of disaster as “force majeure”.
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