Leukaemia was a rarity before 1991. I admitted eight last month, I remember all their names. We are suffering - I cry so often. There were other horrors. Starvation, multiple congenital abnormalities, cancers, heart defects, leprosy, waterborne diseases.
Death stalks Iraq's children from the moment of birth.
In the beautiful, relentlessly bombarded southern city of Basra where the biblical Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, the state of health takes on another dimension. One doctor has completed a thesis comparing the congenital abnormalities, cancers and malignancies since the Gulf War with Hiroshima. Page after page of tragedy. All young parents with no history of abnormalities in the family as far as we can tell, since we have few laboratory facilities now.