Ibn Sina Hospital is a hospital

Hospital

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 in Baghdad, Iraq

Iraq

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 which was built by four Iraqi doctors - Modafar Al Shather, Kadim Shubar, Kasim Abdul Majeed and Clement Serkis - in the mid-1960s. It was purchased for a fraction of its true value by the Iraqi government for use by Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

, his family and the Baath Party

Baath Party

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 elite. Uday Hussein

Uday Hussein

Uday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti , was the eldest son of Saddam Hussein from his first wife, Sajida Talfah. He was the brother of Qusay Hussein. Uday was for several years seen as the heir apparent of his father; however, Uday lost his place in the line of succession due to his erratic behavior and...

 was hospitalized there after being wounded in a failed assassination attempt in the mid-1990s. Although it was built as a facility for Iraq's ruling class, its owners provided free medical care and hospitalization to all Iraqis that were unable to afford treatment.

The hospital is situated in Baghdad's International Zone

Green Zone

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 and was run by the United States Armed Forces

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 from shortly after the 2003 liberation of Iraq until 30 September 2009. The hospital was staffed mainly by the US Army and its rotating Combat Support Hospital

Combat support hospital

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 units as an emergency facility for critically wounded soldiers and civilians, including suspected and confessed insurgents. During the period of US administration of the Ibn Sina, the emergency room saw an average of 300 trauma

Physical trauma

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cases per month.

On 1 October 2009, the hospital was officially handed back to the Government of Iraq as part of the US military drawdown from Baghdad.

The Ibn Sina was made famous through the widely viewed HBO documentary Baghdad ER, which featured the 86th Combat Support Hospital, one of several Army hospital units to staff the hospital.