Iran doctor describes severe head injuries, eye trauma in port blast victims

A senior Iranian surgeon said many victims of the Bandar Abbas port explosion suffered major head and facial injuries, including skull fractures and eye trauma so severe that some patients required eye removal surgery.

Heydar Raeisian, a senior surgery resident at Shahid Mohammadi Hospital, said more than 400 people were treated after the blast. “There were so many patients we didn’t have time to write sonography reports,” he told Farhikhtegan newspaper. “We wrote notes directly on their stomachs to move quickly to the next case.”

Raeisian said others had broken ribs, pelvises, and limbs, while several patients showed signs of psychological trauma. One man reportedly died of a heart attack after hearing that family members may have been involved. Another showed physical symptoms caused purely by emotional shock.