Tag archive: medical

On health care in Iraq

Health care – or “Obamacare” – is still a buzz word around here. Though having been out of the country for two months, and completely shutting myself off from American politics, I knew that the tension of the healthcare reform… continue reading »

Hospitals, sick babies & a remedy

A few weeks ago I got to visit a children’s hospital in Sulaimaniah. We went to meet Dr. Aso Faiq Salih, the only pediatric cardiologist in Kurdistan, who’s also a dear friend of Preemptive Love Coalition. Dr. Aso’s office was… continue reading »

Remedy Mission

I’m going to be in Iraq in three days. I’m not going because I’m trying to make a stand for some abstract cause. I’m not going because I see myself as a 21st century expatriate or a hippie or an… continue reading »