Part of a photo essay on the struggles of a wounded Iraqi soldier published by the Iraqi photo agency Metrography in the French Journal of Photography:

Baghdad, Iraq: Hussein sits on his couch in his army uniform. On January 22nd, 2012, an IED (Improvised Explosive Devise) detonated near an Iraqi Army base in Fallujah. Hussein Jamil Abdullah, a 28 year-old soldier from Baghdad was nearby when the explosive discharged, knocking him to the ground. Hey lay there for half an hour, his right leg in an jerry-rigged tourniquet made from a headscarf, before he was taken to hospital. Gangrene set in almost immediately and the doctors at Fallujah General Hospital had to amputate his leg. He was then moved to Adnan Hospital, the military medical center, but the care Hussein received was terrible. His bandage wasn't changed for two days and fearing that gangrene would set in a second time his family moved him to Kerkh Hospital, which they had to cover the costs themselves, as the army refused to pay. As soon as he was wounded, the Army cut Hussein's salary in half: from $500 a month to $250, which is less than he can live on. His brother, Ali, has given up his work as a barber to take care of him, and his two other brothers, Abbas and Hassan, now take care of the family. Before he was wounded, Hussein, was to be engaged to his fiancée, Hind and he had even bought and furnished a room in preparation. But, since the explosion, Hind's father has refused to allow them to marry, saying that they can't do so until Hussein gets a prosthetic leg © Ali Arkady/Metrography

See the remainder of the 2012 essay here.