by Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail
December 15th, 2008 | Inter Press Service
BAQUBA — A nurse at Baquba General Hospital asked Ahmed Ali, who co-authored this report, for a bribe to look after his sick baby. It was hardly an exceptional demand. Patients around Iraq have begun commonly to speak of the need to bribe medical staff to get some form of care.
“Nurses in Iraqi hospitals are no angels of mercy,” Falah Najim,…
