BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (AFP-NT) - The director of an Iraqi children's hospital told a French parliamentary fact-finding team on Wednesday that infant mortality rates had increased 19-fold since UN sanctions were imposed more than five years ago. "This is because of the enormous lack of food, especially powdered milk for infants, and medical equipment," Doctor Ziyad Ahmad al-Oukaili told the team led by former French foreign minister Jean-Bernard Raimond at a press briefing. He gave no figures. "The hospital administrators told us about the lack of pharmaceutical products and medical equipment," added Raimond who met earlier with Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahaf. AFP /AA1234/171316 GMT JAN 96

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