WHO is proactively strengthening national disease surveillance capacities in Iraq and providing case definition and management training, in addition to large-scale risk communications activities. Hundreds of thousands of prevention and transmission control messages were printed and provided to 20 directorates of health in the 18 governorates, including the Kurdistan region governorates of Erbil, Dohuk, and Suleimaniya.
WHO is also working with the federal and regional ministries of health to increase and augment case management capacities, as well as detection and surveillance.
An urgent consignment of PPEs and laboratory test kits was delivered to ministries of health to enable the timely detection of cases and protect health workers in designated hospitals.