http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/20050206/ts_alt_afp/usiraqprisonerhealth&printer=1Unqualified US medics carried out amputations at Abu Ghraib: report
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Unqualified US military medics stationed at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison carried out amputations, recycled used chest tubes and lacked medical supplies to treat the overcrowded jail's inmates after the fall of Baghdad, according to a report.
The Time magazine report, to hit newsstands Monday, also said that a medic was ordered, by one account, to cover up a homicide inside the jail.
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Parrson told Time there were times when he and other non-physicians carried out amputations and other procedures on inmates that should have been performed by surgeons.
"I took off an ankle and a lower leg," he recalls. "There was no one else, and if it was death or amputation, you just had to do it."
"When somebody died, we just took out their chest tube and inserted it into another, living person," he said.
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