[Experience of Anesthesia in northern Iraq after the Gulf War].
After the Gulf war, I had a chance to train young local doctors in northern Iraq for two years. There were many problems in practicing anesthesia; lack of medicine, lack of oxygen supply, haphazard power failure, no monitors functioning during operation. The facility for anesthesia is not enough for the training of these young anesthetists. Therefore, the further training in a well equipped hospital in another country is mandatory for them. Unfortunately there is no such training programme for them at the moment. Japanese medical society should implement a training program in Japan, in order to provide the full training course for overseas doctors to get a consultant degree.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Japanese Red Cross Society, Wakayama Medical Center.
D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D004987:Ethers; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D007564:Japan; D014857:Warfare
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