Iraq's health care system crippled by staff and medical supply shortages

[Echotrail]

Zainab Naji in Baghdad describes how five years of war and corruption have put Iraq's health care system in a crisis state.

exerpt:
Hospitals lack medicines, supplies and beds. Patients who want to have their blood pressure checked have to bring their own equipment. A woman who wants to have her child vaccinated has to find a “wasta” - which translates roughly as a connection - through friends or relatives who work in the health sector, as even this service is limited.

[lonestarnot]

1. Sick and sad!

:cry:

[annm4peace]

2. shameful

spread the word on this one.
Where is MN Sen Norm Coleman on this

[Echotrail]

3. How can our leaders continue to ignore this?

:cry: It's been five long years!

[lonestarnot]

4. Where is all the oil money?