A doctor battles to save babies from Fallujah’s toxic legacy
Ash Gallagher
10 hours ago
The Iraqi Army has claimed victory in Fallujah after driving out most of the Islamic State militants. As of Monday morning, fighting continued along the main road into the city and counterterrorism forces had surrounded Fallujah’s main hospital after militants set it on fire.
But Fallujah has been a war zone for more than a decade. In 2004, the United States sent in troops twice following the grisly deaths of four American contractors whose bodies were burned after they were captured and executed by insurgents.
The warfare has resulted in over tens of thousands of deaths. The casualties have brought Iraq’s doctors face to face with some of the worst physical defects. For Firas al-Kubaisy, a pediatric cardiac surgeon, the past decade of war has had a traumatizing effect.
Kubaisy, who was born in Fallujah, now lives and works mostly in Baghdad. Since 2004, he has seen some of the most extreme congenital heart conditions, involving severe and often fatal deformities.
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