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Everyone,
The recent Reuters story ("US says Iraq's health care system improving") is
wrong in implying Iraq's medical budget was $16M in 2002[1]. OFF allocations to
this sector were well over $400M for this period [2,3].
I've seen the error repeated on CNN. Please, would the press get a clue.
Regards,
Drew Hamre
Golden Valley, MN
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[1] From http://www.casi.org.uk/analysis/2004/msg00150.html: <"... Former Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein "starved the medical system," providing $16 million -- or
68 cents per person per year -- for health care in 2002, Thompson said. This
year's health budget for Iraq is $950 million, funded mostly from the country's
oil sales. Iraqi doctors have seen their salaries jump from $20 a month to
between $120 and $180 a month, and a number of Iraqi doctors from abroad have
returned, Thompson said....">
[2] http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/dp/dp11/execsummary.pdf
Phase 11, $178M + $40M (Center/South + North)
[3] http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/dp/dp12/execsummary.pdf
Phase 12, $150M + $68M (Center/South + North)
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