PHA-Exchange> Iraq: US cure for health sector worse than the disease

[Claudio]

From: Third World Network 
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Iraq: US cure for health sector worse than the disease

 

 

Iraq had one of the most advanced health care systems in the region prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Since then UN sanctions and the US invasion in 2003 has reduced it to shambles. The failure of the US occupation to revitalise the health sector is reported in an article in the  South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #6174, 23 January 2007.

 

 

US attempts to rehabilitate Iraq's health care system have produced dozens of incomplete clinics and unused hi-tech equipment. Meanwhile Iraqi doctors flee the country while others are murdered. The article is found in the South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #6175, 24 January 2007.

 

 
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