All of the hospitals operating-Truth!
Because of disrepair and looting, it took a lot of
work to get hospitals back up to speed but according
to James Haverman, the Coalition Provisional Authority
Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all
240 hospitals in Iraq as well as 2400 primary health
care clinics were operating as of December, 2003.
-sm
"We shouldn't lose sight of where we were and how far
we've come in such a short period. The Taliban regime
has been annihilated, replaced by a building
democracy, two thirds of Al-Qaeda's leadership's been
killed or is on the run fleeing for their lives.
Saddam Hussein's regime has been destroyed." - Rush
--- Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you getting your arguments from those e-mails
> that get circulated
> about how much we've done in Iraq because that
> sounds just like a
> bullet point in one of them. If that's the case,
> this site may be of
> interest to you.
>
> http://www.orwelliantimes.com/2004/04/26.html
>
> <snip>
> * 100% of the hospitals are open and fully
> staffed, compared to
> 35% before the war.
>
> Not true. The Fact Sheet provides no information
> about this. But, the
> Washington Post on March 5, 2004 reported[*]:
>
> "Health Minister Khudair Fadhil Abbas said about 90
> percent of the
> hospitals and clinics have been brought back to the
> same poor
> conditions as before the war but that the others
> will take more time
> to reach even that low level."
>
> Here are the first few paragraphs from the article:
>
> "The stout woman, covered from head to toe in a
> black abaya, shuffled
> into the crowded hospital. She went straight to the
> emergency room and
> opened her robe to reveal a tiny baby wrapped in
> fuzzy blankets. The
> boy had been born prematurely, and the family was
> afraid he was going
> to die.
>
> Uday Abdul Ridha took a quick look and shook his
> head. The physician
> put his hands on the woman's shoulders in sympathy,
> but his words were
> blunt. "I'm sorry," he said. "We cannot help you. We
> don't have an
> incubator, and even if we did, we are short on
> oxygen. Please try
> another hospital."
>
> Scenes like this one at the Pediatric Teaching
> Hospital in Baghdad's
> Iskan neighborhood have become common in Iraq in
> recent months, as the
> health care system has been hit by a critical
> shortage of basic
> medications and equipment. Babies die of simple
> infections because
> they can't get the proper antibiotics. Surgeries are
> delayed because
> there is no oxygen. And patients in critical
> condition are turned away
> because there isn't enough equipment."
> </snip>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:15:56 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If they are fighting a force that just ended 25
> years
> > of tyranny. An international force that built more
> > schools and hospitals then they've had in 25
> years.
> > I'd have serious questions about their motives and
> > probably go with terrorist.
> > IMHO
> >
> > -sm
> >
> >
>
>
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