On February 07, 1980 when the Imam suffered from a heart attack and was taken to the Heart Hospital in Tehran and hospitalized, despite his own convalescence, he expressed the desire to visit the hospital’s patients. Thus with the permission of the physicians allowing him to leave his hospital bed, the Imam visited a number of patients in the vicinity on a wheelchair.
Name of the narrator: ‘Ettelaat’ daily dated February 08, 1980 and In Presence of the Light, vol. 1, page 285.
Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter two, page 185