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Treatment Grim for Wounded Iraqis Ali Left Behind
Ali Ismaeel Abbas leaves behind scores of wounded Iraqis at the mercy of the collapsing Iraqi heath system. Baghdad's three main hospitals are shut and doctors warn that those still open will follow suit if order is not restored to the Iraqi capital. Iraqi and foreign doctors said Baghdad's Medical City, Yarmouk and al-Kindi hospitals were closed due to power cuts, a shortage of medicines and staff and fear of the looting that swept the city after Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed last week. They said the 33 hospitals in the city of five million people were in no fit state to cope with Iraq's war-wounded or patients with chronic diseases and they had yet to receive significant medical assistance from outside the country.
Ali Ismaeel Abbas leaves behind scores of wounded Iraqis at the mercy of the collapsing Iraqi heath system. Baghdad's three main hospitals are shut and doctors warn that those still open will follow suit if order is not restored to the Iraqi capital. Iraqi and foreign doctors said Baghdad's Medical City, Yarmouk and al-Kindi hospitals were closed due to power cuts, a shortage of medicines and staff and fear of the looting that swept the city after Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed last week. They said the 33 hospitals in the city of five million people were in no fit state to cope with Iraq's war-wounded or patients with chronic diseases and they had yet to receive significant medical assistance from outside the country.
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