Word: amiriyah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious problem among medical workers. Many doctors and nurses fled during the war and have not returned. Those who stayed are overworked and still shell-shocked from their wartime experiences. At Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, chief surgeon Boghos Boghossian remembers when more than 300 bodies were delivered from the Amiriyah bomb shelter, many charred beyond recognition. There were only 20 burn beds to receive them. Candlelight replaced electricity throughout the hospital, except in the operating theaters, to which all electricity from the generator was diverted. "It was like being thrown back into the Middle Ages," says Boghossian...
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