Doctors Without Borders has left the management of its Al Wahda hospital in the city of Mosul in the hands of the Iraqi health authorities after six years of operations to “heal the wounds” of the war and the atrocities committed by the jihadist organization State. Islamic during its territorial rule from 2014 to 2017. The announcement was made by the MSF medical officer in Mosul, Gilberta Jayros, following the progress observed since then. “This city is recovering slowly but surely,” she declared in a statement collected by the NGO. Thus, the Al Wahda hospital, which the NGO opened in 2018, will remain in the hands of the Iraqi Health Directorate with all the improvements installed since then — such as the 40 individual rooms converted at the time into isolation units during the pandemic. . Another of the health promoters in Al Wahda, Taha Husein, celebrates the end of the “dark and sad days” thanks to the work of the collaborators in the city, who have participated since the center opened in 4,914 surgical operations and carried out 38,800 consultations . MSF will nevertheless remain present in Mosul, providing much-needed mental health, maternity, pediatric and neonatal care in the Al Nahrawan and Nablus neighborhoods in western Mosul, where our teams run the Nablus field hospital and the clinic. Al Amal maternity hospital. The NGO has also expanded its activities to the Al Abur neighborhood, to increase people’s access to basic healthcare.
