Maternity beds often hold two or three women. Endemic diseases such as measels. diptheria. polio and tuberculosis are rising. Vaccines are not available. In rural areas. infant mortality is 180 per 1.000. Onethird of the population is anemic. 80 percent of the children under five years are malnourished. In refugee camps. sanitation is nonexistent. After 12 of El Salvadors most prestigious professors. doctors and nurses tried to form a group to plead with the government that health professionals should be able to treat people without being killed or having their patients dragged off the operating table. several of them disappeared. Others have fled into exile.