In Baghdad 87% of doctors say they have experienced violence at work, some involving guns, and most at the hands of patients’ relatives
Maryam Ali had just walked into the neurosurgery on-call room when a man grabbed her, shoved her to the ground and put a knife in her back.
Hospital security guards shut the facility down and arrested the man. With unusual fortune, Ali says, the CCTV camera covering the ward was working.
