Situation report update 30 July–4 August

The internally displaced sleep on a floor in a school building in Khanek, DohukThe internally displaced sleep on a floor in a school building in Khanek, DohukThe humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with further displacement of minorities. This is challenging WHO's efforts to provide medicines amid the acute shortage of medications reported by the government, further compounded by the suspension of flights to Erbil which limits the option of international procurement. Alternative sources from the local market are being considered.

WHO is coordinating with the Medicines and Medical Supplies Directorate KIMADIA (the State Company for Medicines and Medical Appliances) in the Federal Ministry of Health the dispatch of medicines and medical supplies to the Kurdistan Region.

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The internally displaced sleep on a floor in a school building in Khanek, DohukThe internally displaced sleep on a floor in a school building in Khanek, DohukThe humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with further displacement of minorities. This is challenging WHO's efforts to provide medicines amid the acute shortage of medications reported by the government, further compounded by the suspension of flights to Erbil which limits the option of international procurement. Alternative sources from the local market are being considered.

WHO is coordinating with the Medicines and Medical Supplies Directorate KIMADIA (the State Company for Medicines and Medical Appliances) in the Federal Ministry of Health the dispatch of medicines and medical supplies to the Kurdistan Region.

Read the latest situation report