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Funding shortages force closure of frontline health programs in Iraq: WHO

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said due to funding shortages it had suspended 84 percent of frontline health programmes in ten Governorates in Iraq in July, leaving almost three million people without access to urgently-needed healthcare services.

According to the organization, the closure of more than 184 health services resulted in millions of refugees, internally displaced people and host communities having no access to critical care, including trauma care, nutritional case, primary healthcare, outbreak detection and management, immunization services and reproductive health care services.

Tarik Jasareviæ, spokesperson of WHO, told a press conference here on Tuesday that out of the 60.9 million U.S. dollars required by the health cluster, only 5.1 million or eight percent had been received.

He added that other health programs were due to be closed before October if there are still no good news in the funding. Enditem