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As Iraq's public health system struggles to provide good medical care, some private hospitals are doing free surgery for patients who need it. One such patient was a teenage girl with an umbilical hernia, Intesar Kamil, the doctor who operated on her said. The hernia was so painful, the girl could hardly walk when her family brought her to the Dijla Hospital in Adamiyah, in western Baghdad, Kamil said.

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