BBC reports: Iraq health care 'in deep crisis': "Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity [Medact] says." Medact calls "the war [. . .] a continuing public health disaster that was predictable - and should have been preventable." According to the report Iraqi hospitals suffer from drug shortages, poor sanitation, inadequate staffing levels, lack of drugs, damaged buildings,etc. which result in the quality of care being worse than pre-invasion levels. U.S. precision bombings left 12% of Iraqi hospitals damaged and both of main public health laboratories destroyed. Medact goes on to report that rebuilding efforts have, surprise surprise, been hampered by "mismanagement and corruption."

It seems only fair that if we in the U.S. have to suffer through mismanagement and corruption so should our vassal states.

Now, don't you have some holiday shopping to do?

UPDATE: Aljazeera has a much more in-depth account of the Medact report. Go figure.
posted by Idle Crank at 11/30/2004 09:51:00 AM