Covid-19 strikes back in Iraq
There have been 515 new instances of COVID-19 which were recorded in Iraq on Monday June 20, according to the country’s health ministry. This compelled it to declare a new wave of the Covid-19 infection. This year’s positive cases and the number of those sick in hospitals have increased significantly,...
Read moreCholera hits Iraq
At least 13 people have been infected with Cholera in Iraq as the COVID-19 outbreak slows down. Authorities claim that northern Kurdistan is the epicenter of the problem. Kurdistan’s district health chief, Sabah Hawrami, stated that Sulaimaniyah had 10 cholera cases, which were confirmed. There are 56 likely cases being investigated...
Read moreIraq’s Crimean-Congo fever problem is growing
Iraq has now seen 200 cases of Crimean-Congo fever since the beginning of the year. More than 30 people have died as a result of the disease, according to Iraq’s health ministry. 194 people, mainly butchers and livestock breeders, have been infected by the virus, according to a Ministry of...
Read moreSmoking is killing Iraq
According to an Iraqi health official, a smoker dies every 20 minutes. According to Abbas Jabbar Sahib, head of the Ministry of Health’s tobacco control branch, the estimate comes from the WHO. Cigarettes cost an estimated $1,367,000 a day in Iraq, according to the country’s government. The Tobacco Atlas estimates...
Read moreIraqi healthcare in peril
Medical aid from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been offered to those who fled Hawija during IS control and subsequent battles to retake the area since 2016. At the Hawija refugee processing centers, we operated mobile clinics. Refugee camps were our place of labor. These camps have been shut down...
Read moreCongo fever strikes Iraq
A tick-borne virus has killed 31 people in Iraq in the last several months, according to the country’s Health Ministry. To date this year, there have been 170 confirmed cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Infected are 15 of the country’s 18 provinces. Most confirmed cases are in Dhi Qar, which...
Read moreInfected poultry flocks in Iraq
After only a brief absence from Iraq, two chicken flocks near Baghdad have been infected with avian flu. After an absence of five months, highly pathogenic avian influenza has returned to Iraq. As of mid-May, the World Organization for Animal Health reported that 24,000 chickens had died at a farm...
Read moreCongo Fever mixed with Covid in Iraqi Kurdistan
On Saturday, a health ministry official in the Kurdistan Region confirmed the first Congo fever death. A COVID-19 patient died of respiratory illness after 40 days of no coronavirus deaths in the region. The first case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was reported on May 10 in Kurdistan. To date an...
Read morePharma trade in Iraq
Medical association chief Jassim al-Azzawi announced in November that his team was digitizing prescriptions. Given Iraq’s healthcare woes, this may appear normal. Using handwritten prescriptions might be a challenge. Some doctors use unreadable handwriting coding while making prescriptions for drugs. The doctor’s handwritten code is hard to decipher. Dealer doctors are...
Read moreCovid-19 strikes Iraq
Iraq has reported 170 cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to Shafaq News. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health released this information. There were no fatalities from COVID-19 today, according to the daily epidemiological data. Only 105 patients have exhibited no further deterioration in health following the...
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