What to Know About Obeying an Unlawful Military Order
https://www.thebalancecareers.com "- ... "- Laws and Legislation A Duty To Disobey Unlawful Orders? " the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Article 90 states that military personnel need to obey the "lawful orders of his/her superior.
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Iraq's health care system
Iraq had developed a centralized free health care system in the 1970s using a hospital based, capital-intensive model of curative care. The country depended on large-scale imports of medicines, medical equipment and even nurses, paid for with oil export income, according to a "Watching Brief" report issued jointly by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in July 2003.
Iraq developed a Westernized system of sophisticated hospitals with advanced medical procedures, provided by specialist physicians. The UNICEF/WHO report noted that prior to 1990, 97 percent of the urban dwellers and 71 percent of the rural population had access to free primary health care; Infant mortality rates fell from 80 per 1,000 live births in 1974, to 60 in 1982 and 40 in 1989, according to government statistics. A similar trend characterized under-five mortality rates which halved from 120 per 1,000 live births in 1974 to 60 in 1989. The US war damaged hospitals, power generation, and water treatment facilities; foreign nurses left the country; and the health budget was slashed. In the eight months following the 1991 war, mortality rates for children under five shot back up to 120 per 1,000 live births, the highest recorded increase for any country in the world in the 1990s, according to the UNICEF/WHO report.
Health Care in Iraq "'Under Saddam Hussein' by Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of Corp Watch and the author of 'Iraq Inc.' (Seven Stories Press, September 2004).
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