There was a fire in an Iraqi hospital at the weekend, which caters for Covid patients.
At least 29 people were killed in the fire.
The Indian hospital system is unable to cope with the current Covid surge.
And the Indian story is being replicated in other countries around the world.
Has it dawned on any of us the billions we spend on weapons of destruction?
The money that has been wasted on weaponry in Iraq is a scandal. India is a world nuclear power.
Across the world we see pictures every evening of old, outdated dirty hospital equipment.
Isn’t it time the world made a decision to spend money on keeping people alive, and keeping them alive in a manner in keeping with human dignity, rather than keeping them in poverty and killing them.
Global spending on weapons reached record levels last year despite the economic ravages of the coronavirus with China, where the pandemic began, leading the arms race in Asia by a considerable margin.
Research carried out by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) shows that the amount spent on defence globally went up to €1.48 trillion, a rise of almost four per cent in real terms over 2019.
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