HIGHLIGHTS
The third round of the national polio vaccination campaign was conducted from 24 to 28 May 2015 in Iraq targeting 5.7 million children aged 0 month to 5 years and reaching 5.3 million children (92%) nationwide excluding Mosul and Anbar governorates which started the campaign late due to security concerns.
In response to the health needs of newly displaced populations in Kirkuk, WHO has delivered basic units of Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) to the Directorate of Health in Kirkuk in quantities sufficient to treat 3 900 people for three months.
WHO also donated a trauma kit and Interagency Emergency Health Kits (basic unit) worth treating 18 000 people for three months to United Iraqi Medical Society (UIMS), WHO implementing partner to support management of newly displaced populations (IDPs) in Al-Nekheeb Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC)
As part of cholera preparedness, experts from the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) conducted a mission in Iraq to assess the risk of cholera outbreak.