Baghdad hospital doctors on strike against soldiers

[maddezmom]

By Mussab Al-Khairalla
1 hour, 9 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than two dozen doctors walked out of one of Baghdad's busiest hospitals on Tuesday to protest what they said was abuse by Iraqi soldiers, leaving about 100 patients to fend for themselves in chaotic wards.

Physicians said the troubles started when soldiers barged into a woman's wing at Yarmouk hospital, opened curtains and conducted searches as patients lay in their beds on Monday.

A 27-year-old internal medicine specialist said a soldier began intimidating and abusing him.

"Before he left he said, 'Why are you looking in disapproval?' Then he came and punched me lightly on my arm before sticking his rifle into my stomach and loading it," the doctor, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, told Reuters.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050719/wl_nm/iraq_hospital_dc_1

[leftchick]

1. death squads...

as if these poor people aren't suffering enough we have unleashed negroponte trained death squads on average citizens.

:(

~snip~


Suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg, Muhammad Hashim lay quietly in the back of an ambulance which rushed him to Yarmouk from a town 30 kilometers southeast of Baghdad. But the strike forced his angry father to take him to another hospital.

Yarmouk, a run-down, sparsely equipped building, has treated many of Baghdad's worst cases. Overcrowded with patients and staff, it's emergency room hosts a frenzy of activity every day.

Nevertheless, doctors said they would press on with a strike to draw attention to army and security forces, whose wounded comrades are often treated at Yarmouk and other hospitals.

"We know the citizens may be a little upset but we have our rights too and we can't operate and provide a service to people if we feel under threat," said Assad Hindi, standing outside the hospital with other physicians.



A woman carries her child past striking doctors after she was refused treatment at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital July 19, 2005. Doctors at one of the busiest hospitals have gone on strike in protest at abuse they say was committed against them by Iraqi soldiers. Around 30 doctors walked out of their wards on Tuesday morning after claiming one of their colleagues in the abdominal disease department was verbally and physically abused by an Iraqi soldier. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. If this is happening in the hospitals

then you know damn well that its happening everywhere else in the country. Then people wonder why Iraqis are becoming suicide bombers.

[LizW]

3. It is happening especially in the hospitals

The 11 men who were suffocated the other day in the locked van were taken from a hospital were they took a companion who had been shot in a crossfire.

It's worse than random roundups of civilians. They are looking for anyone with gunshot wounds and assuming that they got those wounds while fighting as insurgents.

[jhain]

4. was just about to post this- kick

Making progress for sure...

[Barrett808]

5. Reuters Video

http://tv.reuters.com/ifr_main.jsp?st=1121788440105&rf=bm&mp=WMP&wmp=1&rm=1&cpf=true&fr=081904_021721_17d5d2axfe770a2364xw31dd&rdm=849815.473041343

[Supersedeas]

6. winning hearts and minds for oil interests

[Moderator]

7. kick

[katty]

8. Baghdad Hospital Doctors on Strike Against Soldiers (Reuters)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO934305.htm

Baghdad hospital doctors on strike against soldiers
19 Jul 2005 11:29:26 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Mussab Al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD, July 19 (Reuters) - More than two dozen doctors walked out of one of Baghdad's busiest hospitals on Tuesday to protest what they said was abuse by Iraqi soldiers, leaving about 100 patients to fend for themselves in chaotic wards.

Physicians said the troubles started when soldiers barged into a woman's wing at Yarmouk hospital, opened curtains and conducted searches as patients lay in their beds on Monday.

A 27-year-old internal medicine specialist said a soldier began intimidating and abusing him.

continue at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO934305.htm

[roguevalley]

9. The sadness never ends does it.

[katty]

12. No, indeed-these days I force myself to stay informed/involved

[dbt]

10. Boy, are we spreadin' some DeMOCKracy or what!

I love the smell of them flower petals in the morning. Smells like...quagmire!

[xultar]

11. Mishun Accomplished.

[WhiteTara]

13. kick