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At this complex now, it is not even safe to drink tap water any more. Sometimes doctors cannot find water even to wash their hands. Equipment is often not sterilised.
 
The hospital gets about two hours of electricity a day. It has some generators, but these have to be cut out frequently.
 
This is in a […]

Posted on September 27th, 2008 under Features, Health, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Baghdad, Baghdad Hospitals, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Corruption, Electricity Crisis (Irak), Features, IPS, IPS Reports, medical funding shortages, medical personnel shortages, medical supplies shortages, Water Contamination. Comments: None

“It’s like you’re deciding to commit suicide if you want to go on top of the roof because you will be at the mercy of American snipers and aimless barrages of bullets from the militants.”

Hospitals are short on electricity and small public and private clinics have shut down altogether.
Air strikes by US forces […]

Posted on May 16th, 2008 under Features, Health, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Adhamiya, American Assault on Sadr City, Baghdad Hospitals, Electricity Crisis (Irak), Imam Ali Hospital, Israel, IWPR, Mahdi Army, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital), Sadrist Bloc, Sadrist leaders - detention campaign by GZG/Badr, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: None

Deaths and injuries are soaring in the Sadr City as U.S. troops increase their military and economic pressure on the city home to more than 2.5 million people.
More than 532 people among them women and children have been killed in the past two weeks, hospital sources in the city said.
The sources, […]

Posted on May 6th, 2008 under Children, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: American air attacks on civilian areas, American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, Baghdad Hospitals, Child Killing, Children, Sadr City, Women - killing of, Women and Children. Comments: None

اقتحام مكتب الصدر واعتقال عدد من المطلوبين في الشعلة
بدات القوات الامنية العراقية وباسناد من القوات متعددة الجنسيات صباح اليوم الاثنين بعمليات عسكرية تستهدف الخارجين على القانون في منطقة الشعلة غربي العاصمة بغداد.وقال مصدر امني ان قوة كبيرة من الجيش العراقي شنت حملة دهم وتفتيش واقتحمت مكتب الشهيد الصدر وقامت باعتقال عدد من المطلوبين […]

Posted on May 6th, 2008 under Children, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: al-Shula, American Assault on Sadr City, Assassinations, Ba'ath, Babil (Governorate), Baghdad Hospitals, Balad Roz, Baqubah, Bombings, Child Killing, Children, Corpse Findings, Daily Summary, Death Squads, Detention without trial, Disputed Areas, Diyala, Hilla, Imam Ali Hospital, Jalulah, Khanaqin, Kidnappings, Kirkuk, Kut, Mosul, Mosul "surge", Ninawa (Governorate), Qarah Tappah, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital), Salah ad Din (Governorate), Wasit, Women - killing of. Comments: None

في تصعيد امريكي لهجماته في مدينة الصدر واستهدافه للمدنيين والمنازل والمحلات ، شنت الطائرات الامريكية هجوما وحشيا مبنى محاذ لمستشفى الصدر اليوم السبت، سبب تدميرا لمبان ومواقف للسيارات خاصة بمستشفى الصدر . الهجوم كان عنيفا للغاية واسقطت الطائرات خمس قنابل كبيرة احدثت كل واحدة منها حفرة بعرض ستة امتار !!

هجمات الطائرات الامريكية تستهدف البشر […]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security, War Crimes. Tags: American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, American War Crimes, Baghdad Hospitals, Nahrainet, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital). Comments: None

BAGHDAD (AFP) — A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital’s violent Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen.
The US military said it carried out the strike in Sadr City, a bastion of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, where US troops […]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 under Health, Iraq, Politics and Security, War Crimes. Tags: American air attacks on civilian areas, American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, American raids on hospitals, American War Crimes, Baghdad Hospitals, Child Killing, Civilian casualties, Sadr City (Hospital). Comments: 1

TWO-YEAR-OLD Moqtada Raed never stood a chance of recovering from the shrapnel wound to his leg. At the Imam Ali hospital in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City last week, he writhed on his thin plastic mattress and whimpered to his father, Ahmad, who knew that nothing could be done to save him.
Moqtada’s thigh had […]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 under Children, Health, Iraq, Politics and Security, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: American air attacks on civilian areas, American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American War Crimes, Baghdad, Baghdad Hospitals, Child Killing, Children, Imam Ali Hospital, Sadr City (Hospital). Comments: None

Key to the graphic (click the image or follow this link to see full size) :

Child looking at ambulances damaged by the American strike.
Wounded child arriving at Sadr City Hospital for treatment after the American strike.
Child grimacing in pain as he is treated for his wounds at Sadr City Hospital.
The hospital […]

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 under Children, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Photos, Politics and Security, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: American air attacks on civilian areas, American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American War Crimes, Baghdad Hospitals, Children, Photos, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital), Scenes From An Iraki Childhood. Comments: None

” ما ذنب النساء والاطفال في المدينة ممن يقتلون نتيجة هذه العمليات.”

طالب عدد من شيوخ عشائر مدينة الصدر،السبت ، بفك الحصار المفروض على المدينة الواقعة  شمال شرقي بغداد وإيقاف العمليات العسكرية التي تتعرض لها.

وقال عجم الساعدي ، ممثلاً  عن شيخ عشيرة السواعد في مدينة الصدر للوكالة المستقلة للأنباء ( أصوات العراق) ان” نحو مئة شيخ […]

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: American air attacks on civilian areas, American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, American War Crimes, Baghdad Hospitals, Child Killing, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital). Comments: None