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Iraq: first operations in the new SPHCC block and training of medical teams
The first surgical operations were carried out in the operating theatre of the Sinjar Primary Health Care Center in Iraq after several months of waiting.
Inaugurated in February 2020, the new operating theater at the Sinjar Primary Health Care Center (SPHCC), located in Sinjar, Iraq, and built with the support of La Chaîne de l’Espoir, has just welcomed its first surgical operations. However, due to the health situation, it took several months to get the operating theatre up and running. Today, 30 to 40 operations and around 40 deliveries are carried out every month.
This month, La Chaîne de l’Espoir also launched a program to strengthen the medical, paramedical and technical capabilities of local teams and develop a high-quality surgical offering. This initiative will continue in 2021. The training schedule includes both distance learning and face-to-face training sessions at the SPHCC. These sessions are led by La Chaîne de l’Espoir medical referents and local speakers.
Between 2014 and 2015, the Sinjar district, a historic bastion of the Yezidi community located in northwestern Iraq, was the scene of terrible exactions by the jihadists of the Islamic State (EI). Even after the departure of the EI, Sinjar and its surroundings still bear the scars of these attacks: the town is ravaged, its infrastructure is struggling to be rebuilt, and the inhabitants of Sinjar, whether exiled or displaced, are reluctant to return to what was once their home. It is against this backdrop that La Chaîne de l’Espoir has undertaken the rehabilitation of an operating theatre within the Sinjar Primary Health Care Center, the only medical facility still in operation after the EI attacks. Medical teams from the town’s former general hospital, which was completely destroyed, have been redeployed to the SPHCC.
