‘Kiarostami died of brain hemorrhage’

Late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died from massive bleeding in the brain caused by an overdose of anticoagulant drug, Iran Medical Council (IMC) says.

Kiarostami died after massive bleeding in the outermost layer of the meninges caused by an overdose of the drug heparin, the IMC announced on Monday.

The famous Iranian filmmaker died in a Paris hospital last July following complications due to a severe gastrointestinal disease.

Following his death, France and the Parisian hospital have declined to offer the necessary cooperation in providing the IMC with a copy of Kiarostami’s medical records, IMC director Alireza Zali said at a press conference on Monday.

“Not even one page of the records has been officially given to us,” he noted.

He added, “The survey has been carried out by a team of 40 elite Iranian specialists, some of whom studied in France, based on a copy of the medical records we received from an alternative source.”

“We are still looking to hear from the Parisian hospital about their reason for giving an injection of heparin to Kiarostami,” he said.

In mid-March 2016, Kiarostami was hospitalized at Tehran’s Jam Hospital and underwent several operations. Although he didn’t recover fully, he left the hospital a month later.

Due to repercussions from the operations, he was admitted to Arad Hospital in Tehran. However, he decided to leave the hospital on June 27 and continue further medical treatment at the hospital in Paris, where he died the following month.

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