EYEWITNESS: Iraq’s children die of curable kala azar

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http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111468530463.htm

Dr. Eva-Maria Hobiger, project coordinator for Aladdin’s Magic Lamp, a Vienna-based humanitarian venture which provides medicines and medical equipment to Ibn Ghazwa Mother-Child Hospital in Basra, Iraq, says thousands of Iraqi children are at risk of dying from kala azar, a curable disease transmitted by sand flies.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Iraq had an excellent health care system. Since then disastrous domestic policies, as well as western policies toward Iraq, have done a thorough job of destroying that system. Iraq, which possesses the second largest oil reserves in the world, now finds its health care on the level of a third world country.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the resurgence of infectious diseases which had been considered eliminated a decade ago.

Thousands of Iraqi children have died in recent years of kala azar, a tropical illness which occurs in the poorest areas of the world and which, unless treated, inevitably leads to death.

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1. finds its health care on the level of a third world country.

Maybe so.... but they wouldn't let their people drown in a city somewhere.... regardless of their religion, race or financial status.