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Evaluating mental health training: changes in practice and knowledge for health workers in Iraq
Erbil, 27 February 2012 –Under the patronage of H.E Dr Taher Hawrami, the Minister of Health of Kurdistan, Iraq, the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Ministry of Health of Iraq, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, are conducting a workshop from 27 to 29 February 2012 in Erbil, Iraq. The workshop will review capacity-building activities, conducted in the governorates in 2011, and exchange experiences and lessons learned in implementation of mental health in primary health care services. The workshop will also focus on promoting local capacity in the areas of supervision, monitoring and reporting of mental health activities at primary health care level. Directors of primary mental health units in governorates and other relevant officers from the Ministries of Health will attend the workshop.
Training workshop for central and local supervisors on congenital birth defects survey, Iraq
Erbil, 29 February 2012 – Under the patronage of H.E Dr Taher Hawrami, the Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Federal and Kurdistan Ministries of Health of Iraq, in collaboration with WHO, are conducting a four-day training of trainers’ workshop from 27 February to 1 March 2012, in Erbil. Central and local supervisors are being trained as trainers on the congenital birth defects survey to be conducted in eight selected governorates in Iraq.
H.E Dr Taher Hawrami, Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government, addressing participants of congenital birth defects survey workshop
During opening remarks, H.E Dr Hawrami stated, “There is a need for a comprehensive programme to learn more about birth defects in Iraq that could shed light on the incidence of various conditions, such as congenital heart defects and neurological defects, in different geographic areas over time in Iraq.”
Implementation of the Good Governance for Medicines programme in Iraq
21 February 2012 – The Ministry of Health of Iraq (MOH) and the Ministry of Health for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched today, the field implementation of phase I of the programme of Good Governance for Medicines (GGM).
MoH staff and WHO working together for a better Governance for Medicines in the future
With the training for three days of 14 national assessors (10 from MOH/Baghdad and 4 from MOH/KRG) on the use of the standardized assessment instrument and methodology for measuring transparency in the public pharmaceutical sector, the ministries of health in Baghdad and Erbil will be able to obtain a better understanding of the potential vulnerability of the pharmaceutical sector to corruption and in addressing gaps identified.
