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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The Iraqi Red Crescent Society sounded an alarm over what they described as a humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi town of Fallujah after days of fierce street battles between US-led forces and Iraqi fighters.
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One Iraqi doctor tells how she and colleagues have to cope with medical shortages, lack of equipment and a constant kidnap threat.
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The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is pulling out of Iraq because of the danger to its staff. MSF said it had become impossible &quot;to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi&quot;.
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I raq will not be the only crisis that George Bush or John Kerry will have to deal with in the next four years. The winner of the presidential race also will be grappling with a health care system rushing headlong into serious crisis.
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AMMAN, Oct 28  - The international charity CARE has shut down its operations in Iraq following the abduction last week of its director there, Briton Margaret Hassan, spokesman Arnoud Hekkens said in Jordan Thursday.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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The Scottish Government comes under fire for failing to give priority to the healthcare needs of military personnel.
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Dr. Alex Garza, an Army Reserve captain and emergency room doctor from Missouri, saw firsthand how hopelessly outdated Iraq's medical libraries were.
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As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million  U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans  Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Health officials in northern Iraq are treating nearly 4,000 suspected cases of cholera and eight people have died so far, the health minister for Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD : Iraq suffered a fresh blow as the foreign aid group CARE halted its operations in the violence-wracked country after the kidnapping of a top relief worker, while a car bomb blew up in Baghdad.
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More than 17,000 people receiving treatment in the UK have died unnecessarily because of the inadequacies of the NHS, it is claimed today
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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Iraq only has a third of the doctors it needs because killings and kidnappings of the medical professionals prompted many to leave the country, its military surgeon general said Thursday.
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At least 275 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease, an outbreak some health officials are blaming on the war's devastating effect on the public health system.
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Iraq's interim government on Sunday declared a state of emergency for 60 days, the spokesman for interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced.