At Al Asskan Hospital in Baghdad, a pediatric hospital, two doctors perform cardiac massage on 10 yr. old Worood Nasiaf, who died a few minutes later. She suffered from pulmonary pneumonia, and she was unable to be brought to the hospital for treatment by her father, because of traveling conditions during the war, and because many hospitals stopped functioning during the fighting. In the bed next to hers' lay patient, 2 yr. old Mortalha Hameed, and her mother Eman Ali, 28. After the doctors declared Worood Nasiaf dead, they put her hands together on her chest, and covered her face, and her father entered the room and wept.


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