World Health Organization
منظمة الصحة العالمية
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WHO ensures health services for populations exposed to toxic sulphur and oil fumes south-east of Mosul, Iraq

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WHO ensures health services for populations exposed to toxic sulfur and oil fumes south-east of Mosul, Iraq

31 October 2016 – 15-year-old Zainab was suffering from severe suffocation when her family brought her in to the main primary health care clinic in Al-Qayyarah town, south-east of Mosul. Asthmatic since birth, Zainab was having trouble breathing as a result of the sulfur fumes from the burning Mishraq sulfur plant. 

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