Medicine shortage continues (Iraq)

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Medicine shortage continues

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1628.shtml

Medicine shortage continues
Report , IRIN, 3 September 2004

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Ministry of Health (MOH) and other health professionals say there is still a chronic shortage of medicines in the country and that changes need to be made within the system in order to overcome the problem.

Doctors say they are still in urgent need of crucial medicines. "We had a programme in which cancer and growth hormone drugs were available to patients according to their needs. The ministry used to offer a certain quantity to us every year, so there could be controlled assistance to the patient, but now all that is gone. You cannot imagine what effect the shortage of such drugs has had on patients," Intissar al-Abadi, chief pharmacist of Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, the largest emergency support facility, told IRIN.

According to a health worker at the hospital, some drugs used in performing emergency operations, anti-inflammatory drugs, Clarofan, an antibiotic used after surgery, and other antibiotics were in short supply.

Such drugs are in high demand at the hospital, doctors say. They complain that for each antibiotic used, they need five times more and that this is causing a delay in the recuperation of patients. Catheters for children also cannot be found at all in hospitals across the country.

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1. Ask doctors if Iraq is better off

Ask the doctors who haven't been run out of the country, anyway.

[REVOLT823]

2. Wow, that is shitty, I guess Bush wasn't telling the

truth last night when he said Iraq was doing great now that Saddam was gone. If my kid was suffering in a hospital without any medicine or basic medical supplies, I would pick up a gun and start shooting occupiers too.

[mom cat]

3. And just how much are we spending on those 14 bases?

This is unforgivable. The Halliburton overcharges alone would have given Iraq all the medicine, equipment and supplies they would need for a long time. No wonder they hate us. I hate us too. :cry: