Iraqi doctors abducted; others flee nation

[JoFerret]

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/06/06/iraqi_doctors_abducted_others_flee_nation/Officials say 100 physicians seized
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | June 6, 2004

BAGHDAD

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For two months, someone has been kidnapping the best doctors in Iraq. Health officials and doctors estimate that as many as 100 surgeons, specialists, and general physicians have been abducted from their homes and clinics since April. Some were beaten and tortured. Most were released after the payment of $20,000 to $200,000 in ransom.

Already plagued by outdated equipment and drug shortages, Iraq's fragile health care system is buckling under this new security threat. Some doctors who have not been kidnapped also have fled Iraq, just as the nation most needs their help.

"We are losing the brain power of our most brilliant doctors," said Dr. Sami Salman, internist and medical director at the Special Care hospital at Baghdad's Medical City complex. "You can't just replace these people overnight."

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[burrowowl]

1. HMO's are doing it

so as to install pay through your nose and ass medical care.

[izzie]

2. A few months ago I read something about this----------

It said all hospitals must buy only US company stuff for their hospitals if they wished to get anything to work with. And it was very costly so most hospitals were really hard up and doctors were having a hard time working. Has anyone read anything about that? It was one of those things you read and it is gone off the news.

[Gin]

3. izzie...what you write doesn't surprise me..I read the other day that the

medical care is poor...supplies are low...and the hospitals are dirty...now I know why.

I also remember that we were told in the US that the hospitals and clinics are up and running better than ever. Do the administration lies never end?

So where did our 200 billion go?