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Two decades after the US-led invasion, it is in ruins, scarred by decades of war and economic sanctions. Health services in Iraq remain unevenly distributed and burdened by a critical shortage of health workers, infrastructure, and suppliesβ¦. A report published six years later by Riyadh Lafta and Maha Al-Nuaimi highlighted that no public hospital was built in Iraq between and , the time when the article was published. He explains that health facilities in Iraq are concentrated in areas built during the s and s.
The neighborhoods and areas which were populated afterwards are confronted with a different realityβ¦. Hassan highlights the absence of health services and the challenge this poses to people living in villages scattered across 10 to 15 kilometers, often sharing a single, ill-equipped health center. For them, accessing health care represents a feat. Hassan sees laboratories marketing tests directly to individuals, a practice he compares to promoting a product, as something quite specific to Iraq.
