Baghdad’s Sadr City hospital morgue runs out of space

[Nambe]

BAGHDAD (Reuters)

The elderly man who runs a hospital mortuary in Sadr City says he does not have space for the bodies of those killed in fighting in the Shia Baghdad slum.


“I’m tired of this,” grumbles 74-year-old Bedou Abbass. ”This morgue is old. There’s not enough room,” he said, pointing at a refrigerated metal room by the hospital gate.

“Sometimes they bring 15 bodies, sometimes 20, sometimes 30,” he said, grimacing as he remembers occasions when the morgue’s refrigeration units have been knocked out by power cuts. “The smell kills.” ..

Like Ghalyan, many of those wounded in fighting were shot either in the chest or above, the hospital doctors said. “That’s where the Americans aim,” doctor Samer Saeed said. “We can’t treat them. They die in transit to another hospital,” he said.

The doctors struggle against shortages of basic equipment including blood transfusion kits. Fighting, which first erupted in Sadr City in early April, has even cut the hospital’s supplies of clean water, which is delivered by tankers. ..

The doctors, who say disease is rife in Sadr City, hope the fighting will end soon. “We have a lot of work anyway,” Saeed said. “The water is dirty. The sewage system is exhausted.”

[alittlelark]

1. Why, oh Why do average Americans not know

the carnage we have wrought?

[LauraK]

2. This is where the RNC should be. For the rest of their lives.

If we lose this election, my life will change dramatically. I will be in the wrong country.

[TahitiNut]

3. All that room taken up planting and storing roses to throw at ...

... their liberators ... but isn't it wonderful to know what priorities their custom-made guvmint has? :puke:

[Erika]

4. We continue to kill Iraqis

As Bush talks about his liberation. The idiot. Americans don't want to know that our kids are dying as Iraqi innocents are dying. That would not meet Bush's corporate globalist's needs. Yes, he's using our kids to kill innocent Iraqis. They never harmed us or even cared to. But he has to justify the profits.