Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
,
Al-Karkh
Karkh or Al-Karkh (Arabic: الكرخ) is historically the name of the western half of Baghdad, Iraq, or alternatively, the western shore of the Tigris River as it ran through Baghdad. The eastern shore is known as Al-Rasafa.Al-Yarmouk city, besides Al-Mustansiriya medical college (and is considered the teaching hospital for its students). The hospital was established in 1964 and now represents the second largest Iraqi hospital after Baghdad medical city. It is also the largest emergency facility in the country. It has an emergency department and an outpatient clinic besides the medical, surgical (including
orthopedics
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and
burn unit
A burn center, burn unit, or burns unit is a hospital specializing in the treatment of burns. Burn centers are often used for the treatment and recovery of patients with more severe burns.
Overview
The severity of a burn, and therefore whether ...
s), obstetrical, oncology section and gynecological wards. ِAlso associated with the hospital highly sophisticated teaching laboratories,
radiology
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ward,
blood bank
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, the national center of haematology and
cancer research
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Cancer research ranges from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the performance of clinical trials to evaluate and ...
center. Collectively with the Central Pediatric Teaching Hospital run by Yarmouk Directorate of Health. The hospital has about 700 beds.
The hospital focused on victims of violence due to war during the 2003-2011
Iraq War
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, and was one of only five hospitals in Baghdad able to treat war wounded. In 2003 during the American offensive on Baghdad, a tank shell destroyed the generator of the hospital.
In culture
*In 2006, ''Baghdad: A doctor's story'', a BBC documentary of life in the hospital during the 2006-2007 sectarian civil war was filmed and aired.Fouché, Alexandra. Surviving life in a Baghdad ER ', BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk, October 24, 2006
*Journalist
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on ...
's contacts in the hospital during the Iraq War play an important role in his memoir, ''Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq''Jamail, Dahr. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Haymarket Books, 2016.Jamail, Dahr Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation . World Tribunal on Iraq 23 (2005).