Eyewitness: Bitter legacy of sanctions

Saddam Hussein brought sanctions upon his country - but it is not him who is suffering. Instead, the Iraqi people are paying the price from the cradle to the grave.

In Iraq's hospitals, doctors say there are frequent power cuts and only rudimentary equipment because of sanctions.

Many babies are severely malnourished and of every 1,000 babies born, 108 will die before their first birthday.

Paediatrician Dr Abdullah Hamzawi showed me one baby in his run-down ward. "She weighs only 40% of the weight she is supposed to be," he said.

"Such babies carry the risk of 50% mortality. Fifty per cent she may die. I just ask why should this happen," he adds.