Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital

Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital is one of the Iraqi hospitals. Located in Baghdad, Al-Karkh, Al-Yarmouk city, besides Al-Mustansiriya medical college (and is considered the teaching hospital for its students). The hospital was established in 1964 and now represents the second largest Iraqi hospital after Baghdad medical city.[1] It is also the largest emergency facility in the country.[2] It has an emergency department and an outpatient clinic besides the medical, surgical (including orthopedics and burn units), obstetrical, oncology section and gynecological wards. ِAlso associated with the hospital highly sophisticated teaching laboratories, radiology ward, blood bank, the national center of haematology[3] and cancer research center. Collectively with the Central Pediatric Teaching Hospital run by Yarmouk Directorate of Health. The hospital has about 700 beds.[4]

Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital
مستشفى اليرموك التعليمي
Geography
LocationJinub Street, Baghdad, Al-Karkh, Al-Yarmouk, Iraq
Coordinates33.294120°N 44.352331°E / 33.294120; 44.352331
Organisation
TypeTeaching
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds700
History
Opened1964
Links
ListsHospitals in Iraq

The hospital focused on victims of violence due to war during the 2003-2011 Iraq War,[5][6] and was one of only five hospitals in Baghdad able to treat war wounded.[7] In 2003 during the American offensive on Baghdad, a tank shell destroyed the generator of the hospital.[8]

In culture
  • In 2006, Baghdad: A doctor's story, a BBC documentary of life in the hospital during the 2006-2007 sectarian civil war was filmed and aired.[5]
  • Journalist Dahr Jamail's contacts in the hospital during the Iraq War play an important role in his memoir, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq[6][9]

References
  1. Ford, Peter. Iraq’s 2nd largest hospital refurbished with Iraqi dollars News at Fort Riley, Kansas, April 9, 2009
  2. Focus on child labor, IRIN news, May 9, 2005
  3. "Home | National Center Of Hematotlogy". nchiraq.org. Archived from the original on 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  4. Dyer, Owen. "Iraq's hospitals struggle to provide a service." BMJ: British Medical Journal 326, no. 7395 (2003): 899.
  5. Fouché, Alexandra. Surviving life in a Baghdad ER, BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk, October 24, 2006
  6. Jamail, Dahr. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Haymarket Books, 2016.
  7. Dyer, Owen. "Baghdad's hospitals struggle to cope with war wounded." BMJ: British Medical Journal 326, no. 7393 (2003): 779.
  8. Haas, Michael. George W. Bush, war criminal?: the Bush administration's liability for 269 war crimes. ABC-CLIO, 2009. p35
  9. Jamail, Dahr. Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation Archived 2017-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. World Tribunal on Iraq 23 (2005).


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