Iraq Health Care Crisis
Like so many areas of life in Iraq, the health care crisis is vast and complex, and there is no quick solution to improve conditions for doctors and patients.
According to figures from the Iraqi Health Ministry released earlier this year, 618 medical employees, including 132 doctors, as well as medics and other health care workers, have been killed nationwide since 2003, among the professionals from many fields caught up in Iraq's sectarian violence.
As the war continues its toll on human lives, the ripple affects of fear embrace other industries and compaound the problem. There is a quandry, no doubt, that the anticpated benefits to a foreign nation's liberty (an American value with Christian borrowings) outweighs the current sacrafices being made. The quandry being whether this is actually true or something American Government wants to be true. Meanwhile, the difficulty (putting it mildly) of war's infestation.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of other medical personnel are believed to have fled to Iraq's northern semiautonomous Kurdistan region and neighboring countries.
Even with the security gains of the past several months across Iraq, it is still dangerous for doctors and their families if they dare step out of heavily guarded hospital compounds.
Drugs supplies are so low that Iraqis hospitalized for illnesses as serious as cancer are asked to track down their own medicine.
