Hospitals, in addition to healing the sick, also produce massive amounts of waste. Those waste products are dangerous. They include sharp items, deadly chemicals, disease laden objects... Normally they are disposed off by burning them.
But in Iraq, the normal does NOT occur. In Iraq, that waste is dumped in fields. In Iraq, due to the poverty, these waste dumps are used by people. People dig through them for items that they can sell for food.
Ali Hassan, a 9-year-old resident of Sadr City, is a regular at the hospital’s waste dump.
"We find very nice things to play with in the hospital rubbish. We find syringes, cotton and empty bottles. Once we found a fetus - that was amazing! We play like we’re doctors. My mother always tells me to train well because one day I could be a good doctor," said Ali.
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