After a few days of driving round Baghdad in toxic traffic, I’m feeling a little ill.
I decide a visit to Sister Marie who runs the St Raphael Hospital might be in order. It’s been 13 years since I last saw her.
The waiting room
War and underfunding have decimated Iraq’s public health system, once the best in the Arab world.
The health of a nation: women and children at a Baghdad clinic.
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