QAYARA, Iraq — The hospital in Qayara sometimes receives so many dead bodies that they do not fit in the refrigerator unit and have to be left in the corridors. “We asked for shelves but they gave us nothing,” shrugged Dr. Mansour Marouf, the hospital’s chief surgeon. The beleaguered Qayara hospital is one of only two public hospitals within a 193-kilometer radius, between Mosul and the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. Activity in the hospitals mirrors the intensity of the operation: 21 dead on Friday, nothing on Saturday. The hospital is also responsible for general health care, including maternity care, for the hundreds of thousands of people living in the surrounding area.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 01, 2017 17:48 UTC