Hospitals in Iraq are in terrible shape, as Eric Umansky reminds us. If Baghdad’s biggest hospital actually runs out of sutures, what is the likely state of hospitals in more isolated areas?
At least one Iraqi blogger is doing something to address the situation. Raed Jarrar and his friends have already delivered several batches of medical supplies to the hospital in Fallujah, so bypass the corruption and waste of the American military occupation and the Iraqi bureaucrats, hit Raed’s Paypal button (upper right sidebar) and help supply Iraq’s doctors and hospitals with desperately needed basic medical supplies.
Although Raed and Niki along with family and friends are doing an admirable, necessary job with this project, you won’t see them mentioned by the usual blog triumphalists because they only jarvis about bloggers who cheer the war and love the occupation. Those types have to pretend everything is swell in Iraq or their American audience might get upset.