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Yarmuk Hospital, Baghdad’s second largest hospital, treats children injured from unexploded ordinance, men shot during fights with looters and other serious cases. Bleeding wounds are controlled and critical patients are stabilized until the hospital’s single functioning operating room is available. Due to 12 years of United Nations sanctions, the hospital lacks basic equipment like heart monitoring devices and backup generators.
Iraq War , June 4, 2003- Baghdad, Iraq

Yarmuk Hospital, Baghdad’s second largest hospital, treats children injured from unexploded ordinance, men shot during fights with looters and other serious cases. Bleeding wounds are controlled and critical patients are stabilized until the hospital’s single functioning operating room is available. Due to 12 years of United Nations sanctions, the hospital lacks basic equipment like heart monitoring devices and backup generators.