11.   Sanctions have bitten deep into this once-wealthy nation with thousands of children suffering from severe malnutrition and hospitals lacking many basic supplies.

12.   But the ill-equipped hospital lacked the life-support systems needed by many patients.

13.   But the ill-equipped hospital lacked the life-support systems needed to keep many patients alive.

14.   But the short-staffed hospital lacked a specialist who could diagnose her problem.

15.   Hospitals lack basic medicines.

16.   Hospitals lack medicines, leading aid workers to forecast the spread of disease.

17.   Hospitals lack medicines, and aid workers forecast the spread of disease.

18.   Hospitals lack such basics as blankets and sheets for hospital beds, and patients often have to bring their own food and medicines.

19.   Hospitals lack basic medicines and equipment and large numbers of people, weakened by hunger, die from diarrhea, respiratory infections and other normally curable illnesses.

20.   In the bitter winter, hospitals lack clean water and heat, leaving them as cold inside as outside.