Iraq Health Index Has Deteriorated To Level Not Seen Since 1950s

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/05/iraqs-health-index-has-deteriorated

“Iraq’s health index has deteriorated
to a level not seen since the 1950s, Joseph Chamie, former director of the United Nations Population Division and an Iraq specialist has said.”


http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37236

WORLD HEALTH DAY:
How Much Can Iraq Survive
Ali al-Fadhily*

BAGHDAD, Apr 5 (IPS) - Iraqis surviving violence are not so sure they can also survive disease.

"Iraq was known to be the best in healthcare in the region," Dr. Iyad Muhammad from Ramadi General Hospital told IPS. "Best doctors, hospitals, nurses and cheapest medicines. The situation now is the opposite."

Dr. Muhammad said several doctors have been killed, and many more have fled the country. Patients are looking to follow them too, he said, with many prepared to sell their property to go abroad for treatment.

"Our situation now has become worse than during the sanctions period (in the 1990s after the first Gulf war) when more than one million died and we had very little medicine and supplies to treat them."

Iraq's health index has deteriorated to a level not seen since the 1950s, Joseph Chamie, former director of the United Nations Population Division and an Iraq specialist has said.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "Let Freedom Reign!"

Why should Iraq be any better than the USA?