title: [Medical support for northern Iraq].
abstract: I had a chance to visit northern Iraq, as a member of a medical support program for Sulaimany Teaching Hospital in northern Iraq. Medical equipment and supply to the hospital had improved, comparing to the condition ten years before just after the Gulf War. What Iraqi doctors need now is to obtain new medical information or technique, which they could not absorb during the last ten years under economic sanctions. In anesthetic field, my activity was mainly to teach regional anesthesia or regional block, because Iraqi anesthetists have enough knowledge in anesthesiology. Similar support is necessary for all of Iraq.
authors.affiliation: The 2nd Department of Anesthesia, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto 862-8520.
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007493:Iraq; D007564:Japan