THE nurse tending tragic Iraqi youngster Ali Ismaeel Abbas told Tony Blair and George Bush last night: "Airlift him out, or he will die." Ali, 12, who lost both arms when his home was bombed, is at risk of potentially fatal blood poisoning stemming from severe burns. Nurse Fatin Sharhah said he must be moved from Baghdad to a specialist unit, possibly in Kuwait hundreds of miles away. In a letter "from the bottom of my heart" to coalition leaders, she warned: "The situation is desperate. He will die if he stays. Please send one of your helicopters or planes...You have all this technology to bomb us, to make the missile that burned Ali's house. But you cannot spare one aircraft for one day to save a life?" Fatin's Saddam City hospital is one of a handful of medical centres still functioning in the capital's chaos. Ali, whose parents and younger brother died in the missile strike, is too sick to make a long journey south by road.
Yes mr. Bush this would be the least you could do, think also about rescueing the victims you've made during operation liberation Iraqi OIL people
| Actually, that's the sort of thing we can and are usually more than willing to do out of the goodness of our hearts. I'm just not sure making a shrieking demand on the front page of The Mirror is the best way to go about making the request. Probably it would be better if she contacted one of the U.S. medical officers in Baghdad about her patient. |
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