Dr. Thana Hekmaytar. (Photo: Dahr Jamail)
Inter Press Service
Dr. Thana Hekmaytar. Photo: Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD — Seventy percent of Iraq’s doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest.
“I was threatened I would be killed because I was working for the Iraqi government at the Medical City,” Dr. Thana Hekmaytar told IPS.…
