Squeezed by budget and Islamic State, Iraqi health system struggles

Internally displaced Christian girls, who have fled from Islamic State militants, draw at a church in Baghdad November 20 2015. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister responded to protests this summer over failing public services by launching a campaign against corruption and mismanagement, yet more than four months later there is little sign of improvement in one key sector: healthcare.

With Iraqis fleeing Islamic State in ever greater numbers, the country's growing population of internal refugees is straining public facilities already ground down by decades of war, sanctions and red tape.