Iraq health care 'in deep crisis'
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Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says.
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"Even if you are a refugee, there is nobody who cannot access health care in the U.K."  When Penny Campbell fell ill after a routine surgery in March 2005, the 41-year-old mother did what many Britons are instructed to do to avoid clogging up the country's emergency rooms: She called a telephone help line staffed by doctors.With worsening symptoms over the next four days, Campbell spoke to six doctors and saw two in person. When she was finally diagnosed with a blood infection, it was too late: Hours later, Campbell died from multi-organ failure.A government report blames a 'major systems failure' in the socialized health service's ability to access care outside doctors' normal working hours. The case stands in contrast to the praise lavished on Europe's socialized health systems in Michael Moore's new documentary, 'Sicko,' opening nationally this weekend. Read more
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Iraqis trapped in Fallujah face a humanitarian disaster unless Iraqi and US authorities allow food, water and medicine into the besieged city, aid agencies said Friday.
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Iraq's top doctors are under threat and are fleeing the country, leaving hospitals in the hands of medical students or junior physicians, an Iraqi lawmaker said Wednesday.
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Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say.
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A rare and dangerous form of pneumonia has stricken US soldiers in Iraq at an unusually high rate. There seems to be no explanation
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Fallujah was witnessing ahumanitarian disaster and in desperate need for international aid,a spokeswoman of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) told Xinhuaon Saturday.
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The health care system for veterans is facing a potential deluge of soldiers returning from Iraq with serious mental health problems.
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Doctors without Borders decides to pull out of Iraq amid extreme risk for staff, escalating violence in country. GENEVA - The aid agency Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres - MSF) said Thursday
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One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world&#39;s leading powers to contain dangerous states.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq now ranks as the second-most unstable country in the world, worse than war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti, and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed States index issued yesterday by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace.
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LONDON, England -- Public health experts have estimated that around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the United States invaded Iraq in March last year.
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The military medical system must be redirected to meet the needs of the large numbers of seriously wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they said.
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Casualty departments are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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JEDDAH, 6 December 2004 - The current situation with Iraq has all the ingredients of a long-term liability to the balance sheet of America, which some day it might be a disaster to the state of world economy.
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The Red Cross says it has serious concerns about the plight of civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja.