More than 5,000 newly graduated doctors have initiated a coordinated, nationwide strike across Iraq, effectively crippling public hospitals and exposing deep-seated administrative failures within the country's public health apparatus.

As reported on Tuesday by Kurdistan24 correspondent Dilan Barzan, the mass walkout stretches from the northern city of Mosul to the southern port of Basra, creating an urgent medical crisis that threatens to overwhelm an already strained healthcare system.

The unprecedented mobilization underscores growing frustration among young professionals over Iraq's public sector management.