One Doctor for 200 Emergency Patients (Excerpt from ’Doctors in Baghdad’)

According to the medical journal the Lancet, more than 2,000 doctors have been killed in Iraq since 2003. Ever-present violence in the country affects everyone, but when patients die while under medical care, doctors face the added dangers of kidnapping, robbery, and revenge killings at the hands of bereaved families. The Iraqi government’s fight against the Islamic State has diverted resources from the Ministry of Health to the war effort, and doctors say the country’s medical facilities are inadequate fo