For unexplained reasons this hospital was given to Reza Motallebi Kashani on July 4, 2008, and dissolved by him less than a year later, although public records do not reflect the dissolution until 2013. Motallebi Kashani was board chairman, shareholder, and treasurer of the hospital.
An account of what happened can be pieced together through news items such as a labor website’s copy of an ILNA story, which is no longer available in ILNA archives. It appears that on March 17, 2009, Alvand Hospital’s new shareholders—i.e., Motallebi Kashani and his business partner, Mehrdad Nouri—informed staff that the hospital would be closing for good. The 250 employees, shocked about losing their jobs just a few days before the Persian New Year (March 21), staged a protest in front of the hospital.
At the time, one protester told ILNA that some hospital staffers had been previously laid off because of what they were told would be renovations to the facility. A member of the hospital security added that the new shareholders had created countless problems after taking over, and despite promising to “increase salaries and improve the quality of life for staff they closed the hospital.”
According to the hospital.ir website, the private hospital was turned into a “commercial property.” Whether or not that was always the plan, the former hospital is located very close to major shopping centers like Alaeddin Mall, Iran Mobile Market, and Charsou Mall.
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