Doctors forced to carry guns in ‘catastrophic’ hospital conditions
With assault-rifles on their shoulders, doctors in white overshirts were treating patients at the emergency room of the Saddam Hospital for Children (SHC) in the Mansur central neighbourhood.
The bands of looters who have fanned the streets of Baghdad to take anything they could lay their hands on have even broken into hospitals. They stole medicines, stethoscopes, towels, air conditioners and even incubators.
