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Situation reports on the crisis in Ramadi
Ramadi General Hospital has sustained more than 40% damage in the recent fightingHighlights
- Ramadi City was liberated on 27 December 2015. However, active fighting is still ongoing in many parts of the city.
- Since June 2015, approximately 15 000 families have been displaced from Ramadi and are residing in various internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and host communities across eastern Anbar and western Baghdad.
- 380 families (2300 individuals) have been displaced since 27 December and are residing in the newly established Al-Qasr camp, north of Al-Habbaniyah Tourist City IDP camp. Al-Qasr camp is already over capacity and a new camp location is being considered.
- Health facility assessments have been conducted in various secure cleared areas of the city but there remain many areas where assessments cannot be undertaken due to the fear of mines and booby traps.
- Comprehensive health services are being provided through the Department of Health and various health cluster partners, including WHO.
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Situation updates 2015
Health services are provided to internally displaced people in camps in IraqHighlights, 20 October–15 November 2015
A national polio immunization campaign targeting children under 5 was concluded in all Iraqi governorates with a coverage rate of 90%. The 6-day campaign was also implemented in the newly liberated areas of Telkyef, Sinjar, Shikhan and Talafar- districts of Ninewa governorate.
WHO handed over to Duhok Department of Health in October 2015 4 complete Interagency Diarrhoeal Disease Kits in preparation for any cholera outbreak emergency.
WHO supported Duhok Department of Health with a consignment of medical equipment and furniture. The consignment included electrical beds with related accessories for the intensive care unit in Azadi Hospital, medical equipment for the operation room, and furniture for Bardarash health sector. The support is part of the WHO programme of enhancing the secondary health services provided to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Duhok governorate.
A health clinic of 6 caravans was established in the IDPs camp at Najaf road in Kerbala governorate. The clinic is equipped with a laboratory, pharmacy and wound dressing rooms in addition to a maternal and child health services unit. The clinic will provide health services to approximately 5000 IDPs.
The cholera task force continues its meetings headed by the Ministry of Health in Baghdad to collaborate the emergency response for outbreak containment in the country.
Read the latest situation report, 20 October–15 November 2015 [pdf 578kb] | View previous reports
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New cases of cholera confirmed by district, 30 August–11 November 2015
Health services status: projects and/or service delivery impacted by the financial gap
Emergency response to the polio outbreak, January–April 2015 [pdf 299kb]
Response of mobile medical clinics in Dahuk, Week 15–18 April 2015 [pdf 774kb]
Mobile clinics bring health services to communities in need
Dr Yousif Mohammed Ali examines a baby at a mobile medical clinic in Kebirto IDP camp 1. Photo credits: WHO/P Ajello7 February 2015 – In December, 2014, WHO handed over 12 mobile medical clinics to the Federal Ministry of Health of Iraq and the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan region to support the provision of primary health care services in underserved areas housing populations in need. Funding for the clinics was provided by Saudi Arabia. The project forms part of WHO's broader objective of providing a timely basic package of primary and secondary health care services, including reproductive and mental health services, care for people with physical disabilities and patients with chronic diseases, and nutrition services.
Four of the clinics were deployed to the Dohuk governorate, which hosts 576 846 (26%) of the internally displaced population (IDP). This has put enormous pressure on the health system and its ability to deliver health care services. The mobile clinics were donated to the governorate to ensure greater access for IDPs to health care. WHO visited one of the sites where a clinic is located and spoke to the medical team.
Patients line up outside the clinic waiting for services. “We used to offer health services in a tent located in Kebirto IDP camp 2. Although it had adequate space, the heat was unbearable in the summer. In this new clinic we have a cool, safe and clean environment to store the required essential medicines,” said Dr Yousif Mohammed Ali, Medical Officer.
WHO is supporting four mobile clinics in the Sumel, Shakhan, Sinjar and Zakho districts in Dohuk providing primary health care services for a large population, particularly for vulnerable groups, such as children, adolescents, women and the elderly.
In Kebirto 1 and 2 IDP camps, WHO, with funding from Saudi Arabia, sponsors a mobile clinic serving an estimated 28 000 people in the two camps alone; in which a doctor and paramedic are delivering health services for the community in the newly established camps.
The mobile unit team provides consultations, vaccinations and temporary emergency treatment and medicines.A mobile team of health workers, supported by WHO, offer health services in two shifts; 6 days a week, 6 hours a day in different locations within the camp.
“We see an estimated 300 patients per day in the morning and afternoon shift,” Dr Yousif explains. “The common diseases that we treat in this clinic include acute respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, acute diarrhoea and noncommunicable diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and heart and skin diseases.” The majority of people accessing health services at the clinic are children (40%), women and the elderly.
Dr Yousif noted, however, that it was difficult for the elderly to climb the stairs to get inside to access services and so they were served outside. “The space inside is also limited so doctors, patients, nurses and paramedics cannot all be in the clinic at the same time”.
The mobile clinic is the only facility serving IDPs in Kebirto 1 and 2 camps. However, plans are under way by the Directorate of Health to construct two primary health care centres, but until that happens, the clinics continue to offer health services to the 28 000 IDPs in the two camps.
Dr Yousif examines a young girl at a mobile medical clinic in Kebirto IDP camp 1. Mobile medical clinics offer a selected range of primary care interventions, these include: routine ante and post-natal care; family planning advice and supplies; routine immunizations; diagnosis and treatment of noncommunicable diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes. The clinics in Dohuk have been operating since 22 January, 2015.
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