IRAQ: HOSPITALS IN BAGHDAD CONTINUE TO TRY TO COPE WITH THE GROWING NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES
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647657
IRAQ: HOSPITALS IN BAGHDAD CONTINUE TO TRY TO COPE WITH THE GROWING NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES
- Title: IRAQ: HOSPITALS IN BAGHDAD CONTINUE TO TRY TO COPE WITH THE GROWING NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES
- Date: 7th April 2003
- Summary: (U3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 7, 2003) (REUTERS - NO ACCESS CNN INTERNATIONAL) 1. SV MAN BEING WHEELED IN HOSPITAL ON A STRETCHER WITH HIS LEG AND ARM BANDAGED (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. SLV/MCU THREE GIRLS IN HOSPITAL BEDS WITH BANDAGED LIMBS; GIRL CRYING IN PAIN; WOMAN LYING IN BED (5 SHOTS) 0.47 3. SV/MCU WOMAN HOLDING A BABY WITH A BANDAGE ON ITS HEAD; SMALL BOY WITH BANDAGE ON HIS STOMACH; GIRL WITH TUBE FROM HER NOSE; WOMEN WITH ARMS BANDAGED (6 SHOTS) 1.27 4. SV ELDERLY MAN WITH HIS ARM BANDAGED WHEELED AWAY ON STRETCHER 1.38 5. SLV/SV MEN ON HOSPITAL BEDS; PEOPLE WALKING IN CORRIDOR (3 SHOTS) 1.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 22nd April 2003 13:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA1CP6TNXCOKBOAEFR973T23XQV
- Story Text: As U.S. forces have tightened their grip on most of the
roads leading to Baghdad. Bombs and artillery have battered
the city, hospitals were engulfed with casualties and relief
organisations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis.
While U.S. forces burst into the heart of Baghdad on
Monday (April 7, 2003) and entered two palace complexes of President
Saddam Hussein, hospitals in the Iraqi capital continued to
try to cope with the growing numbers of casualties.
U.N. relief agencies warned of a health crisis facing
Baghdad residents, with hospitals overwhelmed and
infrastructure devastated.
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) said Baghdad hospitals were struggling to cope with a
deluge of wounded that has stretched resources to the limit
and caused growing chaos.
No toll for civilian casualties in Baghdad was available,
but ICRC spokesman Roland Huguenin-Benjamin told Reuters:
"During fierce bombardment, hospitals received up to 100
casualties per hour."
With many medical staff unable to reach hospitals due to
the bombing, doctors were performing everything from surgery
to taking blood, giving injections and ferrying the wounded.
U.S. military casualties officially total 81 and Britain
has lost 27 dead in the fighting, excluding Sunday's
casualties. There is no estimate of Iraqi losses, but they are
believed to be well into the thousands.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said
forces loyal to Saddam continued to fight invading troops.
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