A medical worker tends to a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Al-Amal Hospital, in Najaf, Iraq September 13, 2020. Picture taken September 13, 2020. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi doctor Tariq Al-Sheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID-19, beat him unconscious.
About two hours later the 47-year-old director of Al-Amal Hospital in the southern city of Najaf woke up in a different clinic with bruises all over his body.
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