Politics & Government
Afifa Khalif, 73, recovers at Ibn al Nafees Hospital in Baghdad on May 1, 2009. Government health care is free in Iraq but patients who can afford it usually seek private care because public facilities are so ill-equipped. (Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun Star/MCT)
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A child cleans a hallway at Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad on April 29. Government health care is free in Iraq but patients who can afford it usually seek private care because public facilities are so ill-equipped. (Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun Star/MCT)
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Thiwia Nasir, right, has breast and ovarian cancer. She said she had to bring her own chemotherapy drugs with her to the Hospital of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine in Baghdad because the facility had run out. The woman on the left is unidentified (Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun Star/MCT)
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A patient sits on her bed at Ibn al Nafees Hospital in Baghdad, May 1, 2009. Government health care is free in Iraq but patients who can afford it usually seek private care because public facilities are so ill-equipped. (Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun Star/MCT)
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The surgical ward at Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad, April 29, 2009. Government health care is free in Iraq but patients who can afford it usually seek private care because public facilities are so ill-equipped. (Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun Star/MCT)
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