A Mott MacDonald-led programme involving 350 Iraqi doctors and nurses is helping to change clinical thinking and practices in Iraq’s hospitals and surgeries.

(Article taken from our customer magazine, Momentum) (more…)

For months, Americans have obsessively focused on the state of their health care system and what is the best way to reform it. For other countries, problems with heath care and public health often have a much more dire urgency. Zaryab Iqbal, an assistant professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, (more…)

BAGHDAD, Apr 4 (IRIN) – Much more time and effort is needed to improve Iraq’s health system and institutions, which have been battered by decades of conflict, underinvestment and neglect, the country’s top health official said on 3 April. (more…)

BAGHDAD — Gunmen armed with silenced pistols fatally shot a Health Ministry official at his home in Baghdad in an apparent targeting of government employees, according to Iraqi police. (more…)

The state of health in Iraq has fluctuated during its turbulent recent history. During its last decade, the regime of Saddam Hussein cut public health funding by 90 percent, contributing to a substantial deterioration in health care.[1] During that period, maternal mortality increased nearly threefold, and the salaries of medical personnel decreased drastically.[1] (more…)