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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Too Many Corpses in Iraq

And the lone Baghdad mortuary is unable to handle them all.
" Baghdad has only one mortuary, and the staff there was able to release bodies in about five hours, prior to the war. Now, there is not only a dramatic increase in the number of dead bodies being brought to the morgue, the nature of their wounds is such that exams can take many hours or even days to complete. Dr. Fa'aq Ameen, director of the health ministry's Forensic Medicine Institute, also cites lack of storage space and a shortage of doctors as problems at the Baghdad mortuary. "

Read full article here (MoJo Blog).

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