Global & Disaster Medicine

After the earthquake in Iran: The new wing of the Imam Khomeini hospital partly crumpled like “an empty soft-drink can in the hands of a child” while the original hospital building, 40 years old, stood beside the wreckage, barely damaged.

November 16th, 2017

NY Times

  • The magnitude 7.3 earthquake killed more than 500 people in Iran and eight in neighboring Iraq.

  • More than 40,000 properties became uninhabitable including many newly built state hospitals, schools, apartment complexes and even army barracks.

  • The earthquake has laid bare what many Iranians have been saying for a long time: Corruption inside state organizations has led to shoddy construction work and undermined Iran’s infrastructure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYIDfxha6IQ

 

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