Iraqi Medical System Wrecked by War

February 19, 2008

Scores of doctors have been slain, cancer patients have to hunt down their own drugs _ even IV fluid is in short supply. On Tuesday, a former deputy health minister and the head of the ministry’s security force will stand trial, a year after they were accused of letting Shiite death squads use ambulances and government hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings. (Washington Post)