Shocking conditions in Iraqi hospitals

The World Health Organisation (WHO) http://www.who.int has reported a catastrophic situation in many Iraqi hospitals. A team from the organisation examined hospitals in the city of Kirkuk for the first time recently. A visit to Azadi Hospital (formerly Saddam General Hospital) revealed a precarious situation: of the 400 beds in the hospital only 40 of them are occupied. Most of them are only moderately injured. WHO states two reasons for this. Firstly, due to lack of equipment, severely injured patients don't have a good chance of survival, and secondly, both patients and health workers don't trust the hospital. Currently 50 to 75% of staff are absent from work. Many of them have not been paid for April, and there also seems to be no system of keeping track of employees' presence at work.