from The Independent

The wards are filthy, the sanitation shocking, the infections lethal. Sewage drips from the roof above cots of premature babies. This is the state of Baghdad’s top children’s hospital, 10 months after the fall of Saddam, reveals Justin Huggler
21 February 2004

In Iraq’s hospitals, children are dying because of shockingly poor sanitation and a shortage of medical equipment. In Baghdad’s premier children’s hospital, Al-Iskan, sewage drips from the roof of the premature babies’ ward, leaking from waste pipes above.

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