Our helping angels are butchers

Have you been to the doctor in Kurdistan recently? I hope not. The ruling parties should be ashamed of the state of our health care in our country.

Imagine that you are feeling ill and you need a doctor. You go to the hospital. The first you notice is the awful smell and how dirty everything is. The line is long and there is nowhere to sit. When you finally get to meet the doctor you will have to do this with five other patients in the room waiting for their turn. You have no privacy at all. And if you get an x-ray, EKG or som other test you are lucky if the nurses do not have any friends visiting, because then you will have to wait forever. They do not care for patients, only their own matters. And you have to pray for that the medications the doctor writes for you are the right ones and that they are not expired. But if you look like you can afford it, you will get a second chance. The doctor will guaranteed tell you to come later this evening to his private practice so that he can help you further.

Later you go the doctors private clinic. The clinic is like a cave, a room with no furniture and hot like an oven in the summer. The doctor examines 50-70 persons in four hours. He will meet with 3-4 patients at the same time. The doctor will ask you to lie down on a filthy bed and then you will have two minutes to tell him your problem. How can these doctors concentrate on so many patients at the same time and decide on their care on such short examinations? A doctor should be the helping angel when you need him but they are all like butchers.

Do we have any controls or regulations for doctors and medication in Kurdistan? If they exist, they are just words on a paper.