The hospital in Qayara sometimes receives so many dead bodies that they do not fit in the refrigerator unit and have to be left in the corridors. "We asked for shelves but they gave us nothing," shrugged Dr. Mansour Marouf, the hospital's chief surgeon. The beleaguered Qayara hospital is one of only two public hospitals within a 120-mile (193-kilometer) radius, between Mosul and the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. Activity in the hospitals mirrors the intensity of the operation: There were 21 dead on Friday, nothing on Saturday. Since it reopened in January, after Qayara was retaken by Iraqi troops from IS, the hospital has treated over 2,000 patients, including some 600 battle casualties.

Source: ABC News April 01, 2017 17:19 UTC