An e-mail from Lawrence Naylor which I’d forgotten to upload tells us: I worked at the Ibn al Bitar hospital in Baghdad from 1985 to 1989. I talked with the locals on a friendly basis and they told me that a longtime unused run-down building 100 yards opposite the hospital entrance was the original last stop of the Baghdad railway. The tracks had long been removed and partially tarmaced.
I also had been in Baghdad from 1984 – 1990 and remember the parties at the Building where the nurses were living. Block 34, nick name block dirty-four.
I also worked at Ibn Al Bitar from June 1988 until Nov. 26, 1990 as en eye doc.
Do you know anything about where Dr Eugene Foley is living. He is from Cork. Worked with me as a registrar at the hospital.
You had the misfortune to have me as an Anaesthetist during that period.
I am retired now.
I looked up Dr Eugene Kelly on the register of the Irish medical council, but he’s not listed there.
I hope you and yours are well,