For example, pumping equipment has broken down and cannot be replaced which has meant that some of Baghdad's buildings are slowly sinking into the marshy lands of the Tigris. The social motion toward progress and economic development is an invigorating and joyful process. But economic regression is painful tearing at society and killing many of its members, members who had been born and whose lives were improved by progress. The UN committee 661 does not allow Iraq to purchase the chlorine necessary for water purification and so many die due to unpurified water. Gastroenteritis is deadly in Iraq and curable by antibiotics.
Antibiotics are scare due to the sanctions.
The antibiotics produced in Iraq are not sufficient as their machinery is deteriorating and they can't replace broken parts. Much more of the money is given to the UN to administer the program than arrives in Iraq to feed people. But most of the money lies in American banks benefiting those same banks as funds conveniently await the approval of contracts by the UN 661 committee. If anything has revealed the true face of the UN it is the complete inhumanity and brutality of the sanction against Iraq. Only 9.6 billion has reached Iraq in food.