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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: "Catastrophic" Situation At Baghdad Hospital

Friday, April 11, 2003
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

Almost everything has been considered fair game, from the luxury homes of senior regime figures to European diplomatic missions. Twenty-five people were admitted to Baghdad's Al-Kindi hospital on Friday after suffering gunshot wounds in clashes during the looting. But the hospital, Baghdad's largest, can provide little help as it has been looted itself.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- IO
A Baghdad hospital visited Friday, April 11, by a team of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was in "catastrophic" state, an ICRC official said.

"The situation is chaotic and catastrophic," ICRC medical coordinator Peter Tarabula told Agence France-Presse (AFP), at Al-Kindi hospital, one of the biggest medical centers in Baghdad.

The hospital was looted after Saddam Hussein's authority crumbled Wednesday, April 9, and U.S. occupation troops rolled into central Baghdad.

It was the first time in several days that the ICRC had inspected a hospital in the occupied Iraqi capital, amid the uncertain security situation in the Iraqi capital.

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