| Event: | OT Other |
| Number: | 2022-000241 |
| Country: | IRQ Iraq |
| Location: | Sulaymaniyah, Al Muthanna, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Babel, and Al
Qadisiyyah governorates |
| Date (YMD): | 2022-6-29 |
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| Information Source: | Iraqi Red Crescent, Iraq's health authorities |
| Comments: | A cholera outbreak in Iraq has infected hundreds of people, and records of more suspected cases have been sent for the lab test in central laboratory in Baghdad, most from the northern Kurdistan region. As said by the MOH officials in Baghdad, there has been a recent spike in hospitalization due to diarrhea in Sulaymaniyah, Erbil, Duhok and southern governorates of Iraq. The KRI health ministry on Thursday 23, published a statement issued a directive in regard to dealing with the diarrheal outbreak in the region. The increase in Cholera cases in Sulaymaniyah and other governorates is a reason for concern for the MOH, as it is coming on the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemic prone outbreaks. However, the Ministry of Health both in Baghdad and in Kurdistan region to prepare for and respond to this outbreak and lessen the impact on population. Ministry has also requested to the in-country humanitarian actors to support government efforts to deal with epidemic outbreak |
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