Like every morning, Dr. Ramah Essa arrives at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in the Al-Abbasi subdistrict in Kirkuk governorate, northern Iraq, to follow up on patients with chronic diseases. It’s around 8 a.m. and several patients are already waiting for him to arrive. He starts his day with an older woman […]
Read More… from Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija district
It is a rainy morning in the Al-Nahwaran neighbourhood of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, and a group of women are lining up in front of a small medical facility. The stormy weather has not stopped them from coming. The bellies of some of the women speak for the reason of their visit. Maram, a […]
Read More… from Iraq: Maternal health services remain insufficient in Mosul
In the neighbourhood of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Ihsan Ali sits with his four children in their home. The 44-year-old man is enjoying the company of his family after weeks of having to isolate from them. Ihsan has had tuberculosis (TB) couple of times before, but most recently he was diagnosed with a multidrug-resistant […]
Read More… from Iraq: Tackling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one patient at a time
By Omar Ebeid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Project Coordinator working in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Read More… from “Only vaccination will end the savage progress of COVID-19 in Iraq”
Early yesterday morning trucks arrived at Laylan camp, in Iraq’s Kirkuk governorate, in preparation for moving residents back to their areas of origin elsewhere in Iraq. Camp residents expressed their fears of being returned against their will to staff from international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who are providing healthcare in the camp. […]
Read More… from Iraq: MSF warns of dire humanitarian consequences if Laylan camp is closed
Mosul is located in Ninawa Governorate, home to a population of 3.5 million, with merely one hospital bed for every 3,000 persons.
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Read More… from Mosul, Iraq: MSF teams working on COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the Yazidi community in Sinjar district in north-west Iraq.
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Read More… from Iraq: From one crisis to another for the Yazidis
Recent days have seen a significant rise in the number of patients with COVID-19 in Iraq, with over 1000 infections and 60 confirmed deaths, according to the MOH.
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Read More… from Iraq: MSF supports hospitals responding to the COVID-19 outbreak
In Iraq’s northern sub-district of Qayyarah, merely 60 kilometers south of Mosul the capital of Nineveh province, traces of a war subsided three years ago are still starkly evident. There, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the only hospital specialized in burns in Nineveh, a province still reeling from the shock of a ferocious war […]
In 2017, when the war to retake Iraqi cities from the Islamic State (IS) group was leaving scores of people dead, wounded or maimed, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre (BMRC) in the Iraqi capital to provide early medical and physical rehabilitation to the men, women and children […]
Read More… from Iraq: MSF treats wounded protesters in Baghdad