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Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 - 12:57 Makkah mean time-7-9-1436
Photo: UN News Center
Geneva (IINA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) fears the closing of nearly 90 percent of the health centers in conflict-hit areas unless donors respond to an urgent appeal to ensure their continuing operation.
WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said his agency urgently needs $60 million to ensure the continuing operation of 77 health centres in Iraq, including 12 mobile clinics, which are on the verge of closing this month.
The 77 health facilities represent 88 percent of current health projects in conflict-affected areas in the country, Lindmeier said Tuesday at the UN press briefing in Geneva.
He also said that temperatures in Iraq were soaring, topping 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some locations.
“That situation, coupled with poor access to healthcare and the 3 million internally displaced people who were forced to live in tents, there had been a rise in disease, namely dehydration and diarrhoea,” the spokesperson said
WHO was appealing desperately to provide life-saving medicines, Mr. Lindmeier said.
Meanwhile, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that the number of Iraqis who have been displaced now stood at 3,087,372 and were found across all of Iraq’s 18 governorates.
IOM spokesperson Joel Millman said the majority fled violence from the three governorates of Anbar (1.2 million), Ninewa (just over 1 million) and Salah al-Din (almost half a million).
Of the total displaced population, he said, 55 percent were displaced after May 15 when Ramadi city, in the Anbar governorate, was entirely occupied by armed groups.
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