Mothers stay with their children in the Saddam Hussein Children's Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. UN Sanctions prevent some medicines. Others are withheld by the government of Iraq.
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Tina Manley / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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6882 x 4414 px | 58.3 x 37.4 cm | 22.9 x 14.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1991Location:
Baghdad, IraqMore information:
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Baghdad, Iraq, in 1991 at the Saddam Hussein 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.