Iraq after the Storm
In January 17, 1991 the Gulf war commenced, and for 43 days unknown thousands had died and approximate, 140,000 tons of explosives were dropped on Iraq (equal to 7 Hiroshima bombs). In April 1991 the cease-fire between the Allied forces and Iraq was established and the 1st Gulf war had officially ended. Subsequently the sanctions that were imposed on Iraq in August of 1990 for its invasion of Kuwait were put into effect. Every major facility in Iraq was destroyed. Iraq 's infrastructure was completely annihilated. Tons of radioactive depleted uranium bomb fragments are still scattered around Iraq . The damaging effects of the ongoing sanction still echoes in Iraq today. Hospitals that once were renowned in Iraq and neighbouring countries for the advanced medical care they provided now lack the basic necessities and medication to heal and cure. Only those desperate masses whose financial condition does not allow for anything else are the ones being treated by the minimum of equipment, medication and expertise in these bare resemblances of medical clinics. A large number of Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition and congenital abnormalities.
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