"It's a story about hospital closings" Rahul Mahajan's 4/18 Blog -Iraq

[anarchy1999]

April 18, 1:35 pm EST.I'm working on a very important story about hospital closings and ongoing fighting. It's a big, complex story, and I'm trying to corroborate everything before writing it all up in an article, but readers of Empire Notes get to see it first.

There are several parts to this. First is that the Minister of Health (of the U.S. appointed Governing Council) is reporting that in the last two days 290 Iraqis are have been killed -- that' excluding Fallujah. That's a huge number. Second, the minister has confirmed that U.S. forces have been shooting at ambulances. Third, it was recently reported as a detail in some news stories that the bridge to the hospital to Fallujah was re-opened -- burying the real story that access to the hospital was blocked by U.S. forces in the first place and thus residents of Fallujah could not get to the hospital during the worst of the fighting. And last, but not least, we have reports that last week the Spanish garrison had shut down the main hospital in Najaf. Let me repeat: we have reports that they had ordered closing down of the main hospital in a major city.

I'll be working to corroborate as much of this as I can in the next few days. Now the details.

At a Ministry of Health press conference on Saturday that none of the Western media was at (al-Iraqiya, the U.S. TV station, was there for the statement but left during questioning, which was the more interesting part). Khudair Abbas, Minister of Health, delivered the statement and took questions. Dahr Jamail, Pratap Chatterjee and my translator from whom I have gotten this report attended the press conference.

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But the main story goes well beyond this. It's a story about hospital closings. Again unreported in English-language media is what happened with the main hospital in Fallujah. Fallujah is almost entirely on the eastern bank of the Euphrates; the main hospital is on the western bank. From the beginning of the assault on Fallujah, the American forces closed down the bridge; sources we interviewed said that anything that tried to cross the bridge was destroyed. Nobody could make it to the hospital, so the hospital staff voluntarily left the hospital, taking whatever supplies they could, and started treating people at what had previously been a small three-room outpatient clinic across the river (on the same side as the town). For two weeks, doctors were doing surgery on the ground because there weren't enough beds, with only the supplies and equipment they could transport, and the main hospital stood closed. You can say the Americans didn't close it on purpose, but no doctor who believes in the Hippocratic oath is going to sit in a hospital that nobody can reach while across the river people die in droves. Call it another form of "collateral damage." I 'm told that yesterday the controls on the bridge were eased up (not eliminated) and perhaps the hospital can resume functioning shortly.

What's been done in Najaf is even worse. I have this at secondhand. Pratap Chatterjee, an award-winning journalist who works for CorpWatch and has done a lot of reporting on corporate crimes, interviewed a doctor who was posted to Najaf. The doctor was working at the al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf (formerly the Saddam Hussein Teaching Hospital). This is a major institution, with 200 doctors; often, doctors come from Baghdad for training. On April 5 or 6 soldiers from the Spanish-language garrison that was posted to Najaf came to the hospital and told doctors they were shutting it down. They gave doctors two hours to leave, allowing them only to take personal items, not medical equipment. The hospital is sort of between Najaf and Kufa, and near the military base where the garrison is posted; the reason given for the closing was "security." Imagine the havoc caused by closing the biggest hospital in a major city for a week. The death toll due to this will never be figured into the total equation of the "liberation."

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[sspiderjohn]

1. We've GOT to stop killing innocents here -- damn! nt

nt

[rog]

2. Dupe ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1431639

But that's OK. My post sank w/ zero readers this afternoon. I just hope some folks see this and read it. I'm sure that this is only a hint of all that's going on in Iraq right now ... with more tragedy to follow, as well. It's important that these stories get heard. As Rahul says, we are NOT going to hear this from any of the so-called "mainstream news sources."

Folks should also read this dramatic account of what has been happening in Fallujah, from a woman who was/is in the thick of it.

http://wildfirejo.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for posting this!

.rog.

[anarchy1999]

4. Rahul, Jo, Dahr and several others were all together on the Easter

Sunday incursion into Fallujah. They are all over there together, independently and with different sponsoring organizations, desperately trying to get the truth out. We need to help them all we can. Spread the word, copy their dispatches and fax them to media and congresscritters. Call the White House, call your local media.

SCREAM it loud and clear. By their silence they are complicit and will someday held to be accountable.

[keithyboy]

3. Well, well, our own little holocaust

Aren't we the model freedom lovers?

[anarchy1999]

5. Kicking back up for more to see.

n/t

[rog]

6. One more kick for the late night crowd (n/t)

.rog.

[burrowowl]

7. Kick

Interesting blog

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Syndicated News International - Elizabeth Rabin, Washington Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 2809 Bird Ave, Miami, FL 33133

Talk Radio News Service - Ellen Ratner, White House Correspondent [e-mail] (attn Ellen Ratner) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1030 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005

Talk Radio News Service - Gareth Schweltzer, White House Correspondent [e-mail] (attn Gareth Schweltzer) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 2541 Mill Rd NW, Washington, DC 20007

Talk Radio News Service - Adam Sharon, White House Correspondent : [e-mail] (attn Adam Sharon) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 2541 Mill Rd NW, Washington, DC 20007

Time Magazine - Jay Carney, White House Correspondent [e-mail] (attn to Jay Carney) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 555 12th St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Time Magazine - John Dickerson, White House Correspondent [e-mail] (attn to John Dickerson) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 555 12th St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Univision - Lourdes Meluza, Washington Correspondent (no e-mail given) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 444 N Capitol St NW, Washington, DC 20001

UPI - Kathy Gambrell, White House Correspondent [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: World Headquarters, 1510 H Street, Washington, DC 20005

UPI - Nicholas M. Horrock, White House Editor [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: World Headquarters, 1510 H Street, Washington, DC 20005

USA Radio Network - Connie Lawn, White House Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 2290 Springlake Rd, Dallas, TX 75234

USA Today - Mimi Hall, White House Reporter [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1100 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005

USA Today - Laurence McQuillan, White House Reporter [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1100 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005 (see Reuters)

U.S. News & World Report - Kenneth Walsh, Chief White House Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1050 Thomas Jefferson St, Washington, DC 20007

Village Voice - James Ridgeway, Washington Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Address: 1312 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036

Wall Street Journal - Jeanne Cummings, White House Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1025 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

Wall Street Journal - Greg Hitt, White House Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 1025 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

WorldNet Daily - Les Kinsolving [e-mail]