Looters rape hospital patients
Some patients in a Baghdad psychiatric hospital were raped as looters ransacked the building over a three-day spree, the international Red Cross was told today.
The director of the Al-Rashad hospital in eastern Baghdad told representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross that the rapes took place as looters stripped the hospital – burning what they could not take – between April 9 and 11.
All 1,050 patients fled the hospital, the ICRC said.
“Only 300 patients have so far returned but their living conditions are dire. The hospital lacks sufficient water, it has no water for washing or cleaning, meaning it is extremely dirty, and only very limited food is available for patients,” the Red Cross.
