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WHO intensifies support to vulnerable communities in Ba’aj by strengthening the delivery of primary health care services
WHO staff member talks to 19-year-old Suood Sami just returned to his home in Ba’aj21 October 2019 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified its health support to vulnerable communities in areas of return in Ninewa governorate delivering more than 140 000 health interventions to people in and around Ba’aj town since January 2019. At...
National polio immunization days campaign in Iraq
Baghdad, 1 October 2019 – The Ministry of Health of Iraq, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, began the first phase of a polio national immunization days campaign on 29 September 2019 in Karbala in the south of Iraq. Senior officials of the Ministry of Health, acting WHO Representative in Iraq Dr Adham R Ismail...
UNIATF awards Iraq for its contribution to NCD prevention and control
29 September 2019 – WHO's country office in Iraq received an award at the United National General Assembly in New York for its contribution to NCD prevention and control under the category of outstanding United Nations country team. Iraq's NCD programme won recognition for its efforts in: improving health outcomes; lowering exposure to NCD risk...
WHO support to paediatric and neonatal semi-intensive care units in Raparin Paediatric Hospital in Erbil
Erbil, 26 September 2019 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, today celebrated the opening of the paediatric intensive care and neonatal gastroenterology and semi-intensive care unit in Raparin Pediatric Hospital in Erbil. The paediatric intensive and semi-intensive care...
Iraq celebrates first ever World Patient Safety Day
22 September 2019 – Lina Suhail had just undergone her third caesarian section in Al-Karkh Hospital when WHO launched its first World Patient Safety Day. Unlike other patients, Suhail was happy with the services that she received from this hospital. “All staff have been very helpful in giving me and other patients all the medications and personal care...
Greater support needed to ensure accessible quality health services for a quarter of a million Syrian refugees in Iraq
22 September 2019 – Providing access to health services for approximately 250 000 Syrian refugees in Iraq remains a major challenge for local health authorities, the World Health Organization (WHO), and humanitarian responders in Iraq. The shortage of resources, resulting from the internal displacement crisis in 2014, coupled with conflict in many...
WHO reaches thousands of Iraqis with health education messages during the 2019 Iraq Health Expo
Baghdad, 16 September 2019 – More than 6000 people benefited from health education and awareness messages and information disseminated by the WHO country office during a 3-day Iraq Health Expo held in Baghdad from 2 September to 4 September 2019. The event, which was organized by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, is the biggest health care event in...
WHO and Ministry of Health conduct mental health training for non-specialist health care professionals in Al-Anbar governorate
16 September 2019 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the Ministry of Health, conducted a workshop on WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGap) for health workers in primary health care centres in Al-Anbar governorate, west Iraq. The workshop, held from 28 July to 1 August 2019, saw 27 paramedics trained to address mental...
WHO Regional Director in Iraq to reinforce WHO support as country enters transition to development phase
Baghdad, 15 July 2019 – WHO's Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari arrives in Iraq today to mark a major strategic shift in WHO’s work in the country. For many years, WHO’s priority work in Iraq was focused on responding to urgent health needs as a result of the ongoing crisis. This year, WHO’s focus will move from...
FAO and WHO mark World Food Safety Day in Iraq under the theme "Food safety, everyone's business"
Baghdad, 23 June 2019 – As the world commemorated its first World Food Safety Day under the theme of "Food Safety, Everyone's Business", the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), renewed their commitment to support the Government of Iraq in ensuring all Iraqis...
