[Slideshow] Iraqi Civilians Injured in War Get the Treatment They Need

Nearly a decade ago, when unrelenting violence in Iraq was driving NGOs out of the country, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a surgery program for wounded Iraqi civilians in neighboring Jordan, which was politically stable and has an excellent medical infrastructure. MSF is still running the surgery program today. Patients are civilians wounded by bombs, explosions, or gunshots in conflicts across the region, a neglected population that cannot access or afford to pay for the complex treatment they need. They have severe, complicated injuries that were not treated right away or couldn’t be treated properly in their home country.   Khetam Jordan 2012 © Niko Guido Khetam, 13, is ready to go back to school. Jordan 2012 © Niko Guido She works on a coloring book now that she has the use of her hands.           "It was a beautiful sunny day," said Khetam, a 13-year old girl and patient at MSF's hospital in Amman. "I was sitting in the backyard with my sister. Suddenly, I felt my body being thrown meters away from where I was sitting. Then everything went black. I can still remember the sounds of noise all around me before I passed out." She was home in Fallujah, roughly 55 kilometers [33 miles] from Baghdad, during a school holiday in 2010, when a car near her home erupted in flames. She was severely burned on her fa...
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