Ministry of Health Kurdistan Region Government

Female Fertility Rate7.7/Married Male Life Expectancy at birth 66 Female Life Expectancy at birth 67.5 Female Literacy Rate:50.1% Male Literacy Rate:75.9% Infant Mortality Rate58.7 >5 Mortality Rate71.9 Maternal Mortality Rate120 Crude Death Rate1.3/1000 Crude Birth Rate37.3/1000 Population Growth Rate 3% Rate of Natural Increase 3.6% Incidence of Low Birth Weight 12.7% Urban Population with Access to Local Health Facilities 90% Rural Population with Access to Local Health Facilities 75%

No of Physicians/1000 of Population 0.63 No of Dentists/1000 of Population 0.05 No of Pharmacists/1000 of Population 0.04 No of Nurses and Midwives/1000 of Population 2.46 No of Hospital Beds/1000 of Population 1.34 Total Number of Public Hospitals 22 Number of Public Teaching Hospitals 5 Number of Private Hospitals 6 Bed Occupancy Rate 46%

Mission To ensure the mental, physical and social welfare and wellbeing of every citizen, regardless of his ethnicity and political affiliation, religion, gender, age and geography. To coordinate the provision of health care at individual and community level.

Minister Director General of Administration Personnel AffairsFinancial Affairs Director General of Health Preventive MedicineCurative Medicine Director General of Planning and Health Education Health Policy and Planning Engineering and Equipment Health Education Deputy MinisterLegal Affairs Public RelationAuditing

Director General Of Planning and Health Education Director General Of Planning and Health Education Engineering and Equipment Project Management And Follow-up Equipment Department Human Resources Development and Manpower Continuing Medical Education Continuing Nursing Education In-Service Training And Capacity Building Health Policy and Planning Health StatisticsHealth Policy Research and Development

Current Situation We have the problem of “Equal Development”, too. Provincial Capitals have the greatest share of all the services and facilities. Provision of health services beyond the basics to the urban and rural areas is a tough challenge. Advanced Techniques and facilities not available.

Current Situation-cont. Almost all subspecialty services not available. No long term or intermediate planning due to the unstable political, economic and social situation. No predictable and transparent budget from the federal government.

Constrains Political and administrative instability hinders proper long term planning. Lack of well trained manpower in all aspects is another obstacles. Poor infrastructure both in health and other sectors reduces the efficiency of the system.

Vision for the Future Trainings and capacity building for the manpower who takes the responsibility. Working to reverse the problem of “inequity”. Developing new specialties and acquiring new knowledge to provide more specialized services that are not present in the region. Focusing more on Continuing Professional Education. Working more closely with the information technology to enhance the public awareness.

Vision for the Future Due to the hard political situation and the torture caused by the occupying regimes, many people suffers from psychosocial problems. Providing support concentrated in the local communities they live in is an important task for now and the future. Construction of new hospitals in urban areas with dense population is an undertaking.

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