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©Kael Alford/Panos Pictures..IRAQ Baghdad 14/4/2003..A woman waits for treatment with her husband, whose wounds have become badly infected, on the floor of the lobby at Saddam Medical City hospital. Most of the hospital facilities in the city have been looted of essential supplies leaving the Medical City staff overworked and underequipped. .US and British troops invaded Iraq on 20th March with the aim of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein. By the 9th April American troops were in central Baghdad and the regime had collapsed ending nearly 25 years of Ba'athist rule.
Kael Alford/Panos Pictures/Felix Features 14 Apr 2003