Ibn Sina Hospital is a hospital in Baghdad,

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which was opened by four Iraqi doctors – Modafar Al Shather, Kadim Shubar, Kasim Abdul Majeed and Clement Serkis – in 1964. It was purchased for a fraction of its true value by the Iraqi government for use by

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

, his family and the Baath Party elite.

Uday Hussein Uday Saddam Hussein ( ar, عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician and the eldest son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head ...

was hospitalized there after being wounded in a failed assassination attempt in 1997.

History

The Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad was named for the Persian physician Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna). It was established by four Iraqi physicians in 1964 and became one of the best hospitals in Baghdad. It was seized by Saddam Hussein in 1974 for his own personal and family use. ICU1a

During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the hospital was situated in Baghdad's

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and was run by the

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from shortly after the downfall of

in 2003 until 30 September 2009. The hospital was staffed mainly by the US Army and its rotating Combat Support Hospital units as an emergency facility for critically wounded soldiers and civilians, including suspected and confessed insurgents. During the period of US administration of the Ibn Sina, the emergency room saw an average of 300

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cases per month. On 1 October 2009, the hospital was officially handed back to the Government of Iraq as part of the US military drawdown from Baghdad. The Ibn Sina was made famous through the widely viewed HBO documentary ''

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'', which featured the 86th Combat Support Hospital based out of

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, home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and was one of several Army hospital units to staff the hospital.

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