Medical aid group pulls out of Iraq
The international medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres – Doctors Without Borders – is pulling out of Iraq because of the escalating violence and targeting of aid workers.
“It has become impossible for MSF as an organisation to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi,” said Gorik Ooms, General Director of MSF in Belgium.
The Nobel Peace Prize winning-organisation did not say how many staff it has in Iraq, but says it has provided around 100,000 consultations in three clinics in Sadr City, a mainly Shiite Muslim slum in Baghdad.
