Malnourished and dehydrated baby in the Alwya Children's Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. More babies are suffering from diarrhea because the water treatment plant was destroyed in the Gulf War and impure water is being used in baby formulas. The only medicine available in the hospitals of Iraq is glucose, a situation blamed on the UN Sanctions against Iraq.
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Tina Manley / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5242 x 3558 px | 44.4 x 30.1 cm | 17.5 x 11.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1991Location:
Baghdad, IraqMore information:
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Baghdad, Iraq, in 1991 at the Alwya Children's Hospital. The hospitals had no food, no medicines, and no electricity. The water treatment plant had been bombed and many children were sick with dysentery. Every bed in every hospital I visited was full. I saw children who were dying of leukemia because the chemicals used to treat leukemia could also be used for chemical warfare and were not allowed in by sanctions. I photographed children with kwashiorkor, a protein deficiency disease never before seen in Iraq. I saw badly burned children and children who had appendectomies with no anesthesia. Some medicines were being kept from the hospitals even though they were allowed in by the sanctions.