Millions of Iraqis still do not have clean water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross said recently in a report. It said Iraqi hospitals lack beds, drugs and medical staff and some families use a third of their average $150 monthly income to buy clean drinking water.
‘The humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the world,” the ICRC said, describing Iraq’s health care system as ‘now in worse shape than ever”.
A big opinion poll for the UK TV station Channel 4 this week paints an equally grim picture, with nearly a quarter of Iraqi adults saying that a member of their family had been murdered. —