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...just a shortage of drugs that is hurting the Iraqi medical system. Dr. Murtada Hussan, Deputy Director of the Al Mansur Pediatric Hospital in Baghdad says that supporting facilities like ventilation, sewage disposal and elevators have disappeared because of a shortage of spares. And Iraq's doctors, once considered the best in the Arab world, no longer have access to advances in medical science because they have no books, no Internet connections and barely any money to attend international conferences. "They say we use everything for weapons," he says bitterly. "But everything has a dual use. Even a kitchen knife...
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