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Most of the injuries are due to the fall of the
bombs. Children and women were targeted by snipers in fatal sites,
like the head, the left side of the chest, or crushed injury affecting
most of the body with multiple fractures.
The types of weapons used are jet fighters, helicopters,
tanks and heavy artillary - in addition to the snipers.
I will tell you a real story of one of the injured
civilians. He told me that his four brothers, in the same house, all
of them are married and they have children. When he heard the sound
of the helicopters and jet fighters, he tried to protect his wife and
children. He put them in between his arms. But unfortunately, the bombs
fell on his house, which led to the death of his wife and children
between his arms. And he had his foot amputated and maprotomy was done
to him. Two of his brothers, with their wives and children, and the
wife and children of his third brother, died. The ones who remained
alive from all the four families were only two persons.
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I think that resistance fighters there are the ordinary people of
Fallujah. They fight to defend and protect their town until the last
drop. I hope they can continue to fight.
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There is a lot of shortage in most of our hospitals in medical equipment.
As you know, when helicopters and jet fighters target any town, anywhere,
with a lot of people, there will be a lot of injuries, with severely
crushed injuries, which requires a lot of staff available at the moment
and rapid action, which is usually not the case. It can't help 50 injured
people or more at the same time, especially when the main hospital was
under American control, where they did not allow any injured persons
to reach the hospital.
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How do the health care facilities of today's Iraq
differ from those in Saddam's era? Are the doctors and the rest of
the medical staff being paid as they were before?
Answer Medical
equipment, most of it, was either destroyed or stolen after the American
forces entered Iraq. So there is a lot of shortage in medical equipment
and laboratory test material, which were available before the occupation.
The salaries of medical staff and sub-staff differ
from one ministry to another and from one hospital to another. For
example, the teaching staff and the surgeons, cradiologists, orthopeditics,
ophthologists - their salaries were reduced to half, or lower than
half. But others, for example, most of sub-staff and the newly employed
doctors - their salaries increased.
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Question Do
the American forces target the hospitals and ambulances on purpose?
Answer They
insist on targeting the health centers and the ambulances, and they
kill the drivers of the ambulances with their assistant medical staff.
They did this many times. So most of the ambulances cannot reach the
injured civilians because the snipers insist on targeting them.
The only hospital in Al-Fallujah is under the control
of the American forces, who shoot anyone trying to approach it.
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