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FROM: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4007167
Bombings and
Fear Take Toll on Baghdad Doctor
Wed December 17, 2003
07:35 AM ET
(Page 1 of 2)
By Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Desperately
trying to treat the bloodied victims of Iraq's daily carnage Wednesday,
Doctor Mohammed Majeed said he has had enough.
"Today
I saw a 14-year-old girl die as her brain tissue spilled out.
I give up. I want to leave Iraq," he told Reuters as mothers prayed
over their sons in a grimy hospital ward.
Shortly after dawn,
a bomb set off by a fuel truck bomb in the Bayya'a district of Baghdad
killed at least 17 people, while around 16 others were badly burned
in a huge fireball that engulfed a minibus and several cars packed with
commuters.
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Some of the victims lay
on bloody sheets at dimly lit Yarmuk hospital, reminding Majeed of his
painful dilemma. "I am torn. I want to leave Iraq for the sake
of my children but I also want to help Iraqis. But I feel so sad. I
give up."
In the days that followed
the U.S.-led invasion, Majeed had high hopes that the violence would
eventually ease and he could help build a modern health system in oil-rich
Iraq.
But little has changed
in the eight months that have elapsed since Saddam Hussein was toppled
as president.
"Saddam used to
deprive hospitals of medicine so that the world would criticize the
sanctions. I thought we would get plenty of medicine after the war,"
he said.
"But
nothing has changed. Now we still don't have enough medicine because
of export controls."
FAMILIAR
SCENES
Majeed has treated hundreds
of bombing victims since the war ended in May, and the suffering around
him is all too familiar.
"What can we do?
It is our future. Our future is death,"
said 18-year-old Mussallam Abdurida, lying in a hospital bed.
FROM: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4007167
