Highlights 1 June–31 August 2019
- WHO supported the Regional Ministry of Health, Kurdistan to open the neonatal/paediatric gastroenterology unit in Rapareen Hospital. The support included gastroscopy and colonoscopy machines. Opening this facility has ensured the management of GIT diseases such as pediatric Crohn's disease and pediatric ulcerative colitis in children aged a few months to 15 years in Erbil.
- WHO also equipped the neonatal semi-intensive/ critical care unit of the same hospital with 10 beds making the total bed capacity in critical care 25, 10 monitoring machines, 10 infant incubators, 6 infant phototherapy, 3 continuous positive airway pressure and 3 spiral phototherapies were supported.
- The agency procured and distributed essential lines medicines sufficient for a population of 380 462 for a period of 3 months. The supplies were distributed to 7 directorates of health and 8 nongovernmental organizations serving internally displaced persons, host communities, returnees, and refugees.
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