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Baghdad conditions 'appalling': UN
Aid agencies have described the basic infrastructure conditions in Baghdad as appalling. While food aid is trickling into the city, children have been seen digging in the street for untreated water. Power is yet to be restored across most of the city, and the lack of traffic lights has caused widespread traffic jams. Carol Bellamy of the UN children's fund UNICEF says hospital conditions are also grim. "While they still have some of the essential medicines, [they] are very low on oxygen, so they're not able to do some of the work that they would otherwise have to do," she said. "They're overcrowded, they're having to bury bodies in their own gardens. "So the hospitals, and in some cases they've also been looted... are in a very difficult condition, certainly in Baghdad."
Aid agencies have described the basic infrastructure conditions in Baghdad as appalling. While food aid is trickling into the city, children have been seen digging in the street for untreated water. Power is yet to be restored across most of the city, and the lack of traffic lights has caused widespread traffic jams. Carol Bellamy of the UN children's fund UNICEF says hospital conditions are also grim. "While they still have some of the essential medicines, [they] are very low on oxygen, so they're not able to do some of the work that they would otherwise have to do," she said. "They're overcrowded, they're having to bury bodies in their own gardens. "So the hospitals, and in some cases they've also been looted... are in a very difficult condition, certainly in Baghdad."
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