WHO’s life-saving work in Iraq continues with support from the European Commission

The World Health Organization (WHO) has received an additional seven million Euros from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) to support emergency trauma care and essential life-saving health care for people affected by conflict in Iraq.

The funds will be used by WHO to provide emergency health care for tens of thousands of people in Mosul, Telafar, Hawija, Anbar and other locations. ECHO’s support will help improve access to first-line emergency health care and referral services for communities, and ensure timely response to potential disease outbreaks. It will also help improve data collection, analysis and dissemination aimed at improving the quality and timeliness of WHO’s and other medical humanitarian partners’ health services and activities at field level.

“This support demonstrates the strong partnership between the European Commission and WHO with a shared goal of delivering quality health services to all vulnerable communities in Iraq,” said Altaf Musani, WHO Country Representative in Iraq.

“In such critical times, where health infrastructures and services in Mosul and other parts of Iraq have been either destroyed or severely curtailed, these funds will enable WHO to work closely with health authorities, national and international partners to step up front line services, bring back to life health structures in newly retaken areas and provide basic health services in displacement camps,” Musani added.

Original source: WHO.
Published on 8 November 2017