login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Red Cross Warns of Grave Health Crisis in Post-invasion Iraq
Millions in the country had no access to drinking water, sanitation or healthcare. Decades of previous unrest and economic sanctions had exacerbated the situation, it stressed.
"The fact that some people in Iraq are now relatively safer must not make us forget the plight of millions," said Beatrice Megevand Roggo, the Red Cross head of operations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Although the situation had improved in some areas, Iraqis were either killed or wounded in daily attacks or violence with civilians often being targeted, said the report. Healthcare was far too expensive for the average citizen, it added.
A recent World Health Organisation and Iraqi health ministry report estimated that 151,000 people were killed between the start of the invasion on March 20, 2003 and June 2006.
Other estimates have put the number of civilian deaths as a result of the conflict between nearly 48,000 and as high as 601,000.
Source-AFP
SRM/K
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
| News Categories: |
| » | Link Between Meat Consumption and Masculinity |
| » | First Study to Explore the Benefits of Fish Oils at the Cellular Level |
| » | Minimum 20 Percent 'Fat Tax' Needed to Cut Obesity, Heart Disease Risk |
| » | Eating Too Much Sugar can Affect Your Learning and Memory |
| » | Fast Food Chains in Oz Facing Higher Tax Payments |
| More Diet News | |
|
