Médecins Sans Frontières has announced they are shutting down three Iraq clinics and leaving the country.
Doctors without borders say the targeting of aid workers by militant groups makes it impossible for the organization to give foreign and Iraq staff appropriate security.
Published 4 years agoThe three medical aid centres in Baghdad, being run by about 90 Iraqi nationals in the mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhood of Sadr City, had seen more than 100,000 patients since January.
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That’s really sad.
Hit me rather hard. I have friends that work for Doctors without Borders, and they have a great deal of courage and stamina.
And the Iraqi colleques they’ve left behind…
MSF have a reputation for sticking it out in the world’s trouble spots — things must be really bad if they’re pulling out.
Yeah, what Richard said. Makes me wonder how “stable” things really are over there….