Two hospitals reopen in war-damaged Iraqi city Mosul 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseThe hospitals — one an emergency center, the other specializing in gynecology and obstetrics — replace buildings that were destroyed in fighting that culminated in the jihadists’ defeat in the city in July 2017. The emergency center has 75 beds and the other hospital 50 beds, taking the total number of beds in Nineveh province to 1,000. But this is still well below the 6,000 available before IS took control of Mosul in 2014, said Falah al-Tai, a doctor who heads the province’s health sector. “The province’s health sector has suffered a lot of damage, but the central government in Baghdad gives it very little importance,” he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 09, 2018 18:22 UTC