His wife's visa for Iran had been approved, and she had already said her goodbyes to her friends, and the very day that he died, they had been planning to go together to the Iranian Embassy to make arrangements to go home.
"What this report has measured is the profound impact that social status has on the health of women and girls," Chan says, "As the report reveals, the obstacles that stand in the way of better health for women are not primarily technical or medical in nature, they are social and political and the two go together."