Who is Iran’s Mother Theresa?

 Professor Parvaneh Vosough, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mahak Subspecialty Cancer Hospital has died yat 78.
Everyone in Mozaffar Street loved the Mrs. Professor’s Green Volkswagen bug; a symbol which would appear in vicinity of Ali Asghar (as) Hospital, making evident the presence of who had dedicated her life to cancer-suffering children; who abandoned her living in Europe to live beside cancer-suffering children in Iran and help them.

Now, Iran’s cancer children are bereaved, since no longer could they learn how to love from her eyes; eyes which were closed forever yesterday.

Savior Angel

Professor Parvaneh Vosough was born in 1935 in Tafresh, central Iran. She received her MD in general medicine in 1963 in Tehran University of Medical Science. She was completed her specialty and subspecialty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Illinois Universities and attended Washington University for her graduate course. In 1971 she returned Iran and practiced her profession in Ali Asghar (as) Hospital in Tehran.

Mofid and Tehran Children hospitals were also among centers where professor Vosough practiced medicine. As a founding member of subspecialty course in blood and children’s cancer in Iran, she founded first hematology and oncology section in Ali Asghar (as) Hospital, and since 10 years ago, with founding Mahak Subspecialty Hospital; she was a fix member of the hospital.  

Her colleagues say that many times, she had been proposed residence of US and European countries for research and lucrative income many times, but that she had chosen providing free service to her country’s cancer-suffering children.

In course of her medical services, Professor Vosough treated many cancer-suffering children around the world, giving them health and she had never married. Perhaps for this reason, she was called ‘Iran’s Mother Theresa’ by some people.

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MNA
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