From Dahr, on a trip to Sadr City hospital.
He was quick to point out the struggles his hospital is facing under the occupation. “We are short of every medicine,” he said while insisting that this rarely occurred before the invasion. “It is forbidden, but sometimes we have to reuse IV’s, even the needles. We have no choice.”
This hospital treats an average of 3000 patients each day.
Another major problem that he and other doctors spoke of was their horrendous water problem.
“Of course we have typhoid, cholera, kidney stones... but we now even have the very rare Hepatitis Type-E…and it has become common in our area.”