| Description | Folder of presscuttings, digest bulletins and telex reports relating to healthcare and medical conditions in Iraq during and after the Second Gulf War, including epidemics, war injuries and medical aid. These include reports of children and civilian casualties suffering due to shortage of medicines, appeals for international medical aid, statements from the UN, UNICEF and WHO on health needs in Iraq, injured Iraqi children sent abroad for treatment, reports of malnutrition, diarrhea and other problems caused by poor sanitation, deaths from cancer attributed to the embargo, the introduction of a health card system (18 August 1991), a photocopied article from Time magazine (10 June 1991) on 'Watching Children Starve to Death', reports of cholera and typhoid outbreaks - including a lengthy feature on Basra from The Guardian (18-19 May 1991) |