Doctors without Borders (MSF) handovers Garmat Bani Saeed Maternity Clinic in Dhi-Qar Governorate to Al-Nasiriyah Directorate of Health

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15 Jan 2025
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After two years of providing medical and health services at the Garmat Bani Saeed Maternity Clinic in Dhi-Qar Governorate, the clinic was handed over to Al-Nasiriyah Directorate of Health on 31 December 2024, where it is the agreement between Doctors without Borders (MSF) and the Iraqi Ministry of Health. The Garmat Bani Saeed clinic project in Nasiriyah was inaugurated by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in March 2022 and the project continued successfully until December 2024. The opening of the project represented a pivotal moment in meeting the healthcare needs of Garmat Bani Saeed, which was suffering from a lack of reproductive health services in particular, and an acute shortage of health workers and medical supplies, which was exacerbated by the limited availability of maternity services in the district with a small number of centres providing these services.

The provided services in the clinic included antenatal care consultations by 4985 consultations, postnatal care consultations by 679 consultations, family planning consultations for 1786 people, deliveries by 635 cases, admission of 755 cases, referrals of 150 case to other centres, health promotion sessions for 20,916 people, and other services such as training, and responses to outbreaks.

Doctors without Borders (MSF) continues to provide healthcare services in several locations in Iraq as part of its commitment to help those who have less access to health and medical services and to help government health institutions transform the health situation in Iraq to better.