One of the biggest problems for helping treat Iraqi people of leukemia is that as the need for treatment increases drastically the amount of funding, equipment, and employment decreases. There is limited investment by the government for new facilities as well as existing facilities that have been damaged over time. The hospitals that do exist may have equipment to treat at a hemato-oncology outpatient department and chemotherapy day care, but do not have the equipment for a bone marrow transplant unit. Although chemotherapy is one treatment for leukemia, most often a bone marrow transplant is needed as well (Al-Hadad et al., 2011).
Most of the facilities that exist have even the most basic infrastructure damaged. This includes damage to electricity, sewage, water, and communications throughout the building. They are trying to improve these, but are still below the safety standard for being effective healthcare systems. Services included in these hospitals are a clinical chemistry laboratory, blood transfusion, radiology, and pharmacy. These services are some of the most important among the hospital and although it is good that they are available they are said to be operating below standard and are questionable safety hazards due to lack of maintenance. Another economic issue is the lack of well trained nurses to help give the treatments. It has been difficult for hospitals to keep nurses because of the short supply of drugs, medical supplies, and equipment used for treatment of leukemia. The ones that are at the hospital are new graduates and don't have as much experience as Oncology Nurses should have (Al-Hadad et al., 2011).
Most of the facilities that exist have even the most basic infrastructure damaged. This includes damage to electricity, sewage, water, and communications throughout the building. They are trying to improve these, but are still below the safety standard for being effective healthcare systems. Services included in these hospitals are a clinical chemistry laboratory, blood transfusion, radiology, and pharmacy. These services are some of the most important among the hospital and although it is good that they are available they are said to be operating below standard and are questionable safety hazards due to lack of maintenance. Another economic issue is the lack of well trained nurses to help give the treatments. It has been difficult for hospitals to keep nurses because of the short supply of drugs, medical supplies, and equipment used for treatment of leukemia. The ones that are at the hospital are new graduates and don't have as much experience as Oncology Nurses should have (Al-Hadad et al., 2011).