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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=twnet@po.jaring.my
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lang=EN-GB>Iraq</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>:
US cure for health sector worse than the disease<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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lang=EN-GB>Iraq</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>
had one of the most advanced health care systems in the region prior to the 1991
Gulf War. Since then UN sanctions and the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> invasion in
2003 has reduced it to shambles. The failure of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> occupation to
revitalise the health sector is reported in an article in the
</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black"> South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #6174, 23
January 2007.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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attempts to rehabilitate <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>’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. </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The article is found in the
</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black">South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #6175, 24 January
2007.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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