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WHO in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, Ninewa Department of Health, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have opened the third 68 bed trauma Field Hospital (FH) in Hamam al’ Alil after Bartalla and Athba FHs. The hospital will strengthen the treatment and surgical interventions of injured patients as the crisis in west Mosul deepens and more casualties are recorded.
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To ensure that Hamam al’ Alil FH is fully functional, WHO delivered trauma and surgical kits and medicines for the treatment trauma patients and other medical related emergencies sufficient for more than 46 000 people.
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In addition, WHO delivered medicines for surgical interventions and intravenous fluids to Athba FH sufficient for 400 patients.
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To support primary health care services for internally displaced people in Bardarash camp in Dahuk, WHO donated essential lifesaving medicines for infectious diseases, skin diseases and chronic diseases to Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) partner Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI). The medicines are sufficient for 13,000 people.
Situation Update
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) displacement tracking matrix data reports that more than 340 000 persons have been displaced from Mosul since 17 October 2016 to 27 April 2017.
Government estimates that 550 000 have been displaced from Mosul since the mid October 2016, of which, 70 000 are displaced from east while 394 000 are displaced from the western part of the city. The Government further estimates that 91 000 people from east Mosul have since returned home.
From 17 March to 29 April 2017, a total of 167 new trauma cases were received in 3 WHO supported Trauma Stabilization Points (TSPs) located in the frontlines of west Mosul, bringing the total number of casualty cases recorded between 18 February and 29 April 2017 to 2127 trauma cases.
More than 100 trauma cases were referred and treated in five hospitals including Athba and Bartalla Field Hospitals, Emergency, West Emergency and Shikhan hospitals between 23 April and 30 April 2017. This brings the cumulative number of trauma patients from west Mosul treated in the 5 hospitals since 18 February to more than 4200 (87% were civilians 27% were children under the age of 15 years and 27% were female). To date, more than 8200 patients (73% civilians, 28% under the age of 15 years and 24% female) have been referred to hospitals in Mosul and neighboring Governorates. Most patients were treated for head, neck and spinal injuries caused by shrapnel and gunshot wound.