Health

At liberation the public health system was an empty shell. During the 1990’s Saddam cut spending on public health by over 90 percent with predictable results for the lives of his citizens. By October the Coalition: increased public health spending to over 26 times what it was under Saddam, opened all 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics, increased doctors’ salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam, increased pharmaceutical distribution from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a total of 12,000 tons, administered over 22 million vaccination doses to Iraq ’s children. Most importantly, there is no evidence of any epidemic in Iraq . Requests for Proposals/Solicitations | Top Story Archives | Contact Us Webmaster | Privacy and Security Notice