Iraqi medical crisis as doctors flee

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Iraqi medical crisis as doctors flee

By John Leyne
BBC News, Amman

For the people of Iraq, it may be the ultimate nightmare.

The ordeal continues for victims of Iraq's violence when they are taken to hospital.

Most of the best medical staff have left after being targeted by insurgents. Many have fled the country just in the last few months.

Drugs and equipment are almost non-existent. The notorious militias target patients inside hospitals, and doctors inside the health ministry.

All this in a country that used to pride itself on the best medical services in the Middle East.

Many of the doctors have gone to neighbouring Jordan. There seem to be many thousands here, all with graphic tales of the horrors they have witnessed.

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[cassiepriam]

1. How can anyone forgive America for what we have done to this country and its people?

[mloutre]

2. and in the meanwhile, while millions flee Iraq as refugees thanks in large part to us...

...up 'til the end of 2006, the BushCo administration had allowed less than 700 of them to resettle in the U.S. legally.

Of course, at the beginning of this year they trumpeted quite proudly that they had raised the immigration quota for Iraqis wanting to become American citizens to about 7,000 over the next year or two.

Woo and/or hoo. Be still our xenophobic hearts.