Health care system in Iraq
The state of health in Iraq has changed in the last decades. While 1980 among the best in the Middle East, medical facilities deteriorated and especially the south of Iraq began to suffer from malnutrition and water-borne diseases.
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In 2005, typhoid, cholera, malaria, and tuberculosis count to common diseases. During the 2003 invasion, approximately 12 percent of hospitals and Iraq’s main public health laboratories were destroyed. Today, sanitary conditions in hospitals are bad and there is need in trained personnel and medications. Per 10,000 population, there are only 15 hospital beds.