© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
LETTER
The effect of sanctions on children of Iraq
FRCPCH, Yarmouk, PO Box 15103, Baghdad, Iraq
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr Al-Nouri;
al-nouri@uruklink.net
Keywords: sanctions; Iraq; infant mortality
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Sanctions were imposed on the people of Iraq in 1990. Iraqi people are still suffering, especially children. Infant mortality (IM) has increased more than five times. Previously it had decreased from 139 in 1960 to 20 in 1989, which was comparable to developed countries. In 1992 it went up to 111.1 In 1999, a decade later, IM was still high at 104.2 The Gulf War and trade sanctions caused a threefold increase in mortality amogn Iraqi children under 5 years of age. It has been estimated that more than 46 900 children died between January and August 1991.3
The study of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, published in a letter to the BMJ in 1995, concluded that deaths of more than 560 000 children could be attributed to UN sanctions. It also stated that the death rate among children under 5 years in Baghdad had increased fivefold since the
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