Indian nurses in Iraqi hospital wait for violence to subside
June 19, 2014  11:51
A moving report on the condition of the 46 nurses in Tikrit, Iraq.

Abandoned by most of the hospital's Iraqi staff, the nurses, whose homes in Kerala are worlds away from the desert city in which they now live, stayed behind because they had nowhere to go.

They have been isolated since the city was taken over by Islamist forces and are now awaiting help. Some want assurances of safe passage.

"We don't know what's going on outside,' said Tona Joseph, 24, who said her twin sister, Veena, also a nurse, was sitting beside her in a patient's ward on the second floor of the hospital. "We haven't stepped outside for the last five days." Read more
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