U.S. claims advances in Iraq reconstruction, electricity, medical clinics nationwide
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Progress in reconstruction extends also to health care, with 28 newly opened primary clinics, 12 of them in Baghdad, the capital, Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, commander of the Corps' Gulf region division, reported Tuesday. In Basra, he said construction of the first new hospital in Iraq since the 1980s, a children's hospital on a 13-acre (5.26-hectare) campus, is due to be completed next summer. Walsh said the United States had contributed nearly $22 billion (€15.55 billion) toward Iraq's reconstruction and " every day we see successes in the U.S. government reconstruction program."