Reaching women in Mosul, where the shadow of conflict still lingers
MOSUL, Iraq –After the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) captured Mosul in 2014, most of the maternity wards and hospitals in the city were shuttered, leaving hundreds of thousands of women and girls in a grim state. “During the reign of ISIL, we were in a really bad state. We had nothing,” Eman, a mother from West Mosul, told UNFPA.
Source: UNFPA News - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: zerzan Source Type: news
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