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According to numbers released by the Sulaimani Health Department, during the past six months of 2023, 164 thousand 204 patients have been admitted to Sulaimani’s Shar Hospital, the city’s largest hospital.
124,792 of the patients were admitted through the emergency department of the hospital, while 6,623 patients received care in the artificial kidney department, the department said.
The statement also said that over 5 thousand people underwent surgery in the hospital.
535 patients were admitted to the respiratory department and 1,785 to the cerebrovascular department.
Sulaimani is known for its good public health care services and ranks the first province in Iraq for having the best health care system in the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) announced in a statement that due to the approaching Eid al-Adha, the High Committee to Fight Dengue Fever held its third joint meeting and decided to allocate 2 billion 771 million dinars to prevent the spread of the disease.
The Ministry also said strict measures will be taken against the slaughterhouses in coordination with the Ministry of Interior. To prevent the slaughter of animals outside the slaughterhouses and the movement of animals will be restricted, the ministry noted.
Special committees have been formed at the provincial and autonomous administration levels to fight disease, according to the statement.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources explained that the first Eid al-Adha service in mosques will be dedicated to raising awareness among citizens not to buy meat on the streets, that cause the spread of the disease.
The ministry During Eid al-Adha, will monitor slaughterhouses before and after slaughter of animals.
Akre health department spokesman Nechirvan Fakhreddin told Kurdsat that a patient was admitted to hospital on Wednesday who suspected of having dengue fever.
He added that his blood work was sent to Baghdad for testing and tested positive for dengue fever.
The patient is 55-year-old man is a resident of Dinarta district of Akre district.
The spokesman said the patient was treated at the hospital and is currently in good health.
Another death from dengue fever was reported in Basra province, and the city authorities have decided to take new preventive measures.
Another death from dengue fever has been reported in Basra province, a health source told the media.
In the past three months, 40 cases and six deaths have been reported in Iraq’s southernmost province, while the province has announced new plans to contain the endemic.
Basra authorities have asked the veterinary office to expand spraying campaigns in livestock farms, animal shops and slaughterhouses.
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family, usually transmitted by tick. The CCHF virus causes severe viral haemorrhagic fevers, with fatality rate of 10–40%.
Transmission
The CCHF virus is transmitted to people either by tick bites or through contact with infected animal blood or tissues, or infected human through body fluids.
Symptoms
CCHF symptoms include headache, high fever, back pain, joint pain, stomach pain, and vomiting. Symptoms may also include jaundice, and in severe cases, changes in mood and sensory perception.
As the disease progresses large areas of severe bruising, severe nosebleeds, and uncontrolled internal bleeding result.
Who is at risk?
Animal herders, livestock workers, and slaughterhouse workers are at risk of CCHF. Healthcare workers in are at risk of infection through unprotected contact with infectious blood and body fluids.
Prevention
Wearing gloves and other protective clothing is recommended. Individuals should avoid contact with the blood and body fluids of livestock or humans who show symptoms of the disease. It is important for healthcare workers to use proper precautionary measures to prevent occupational exposure.
The minister also said that 49.6 % of Kurdistan region citizens aged 18 years had received a dose COVID-19 vaccine, 40.2 % of citizens over 18 years have received the second dose, while only 2 % of citizens over 18 years of age received the third dose.
Many people in the Kurdistan region lost their lives in the global pandemic that shut down the world for months.
Posts circulating on Chinese and foreign social media networks reported that prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns in Urumqi impeded the arrival of firefighters after the fire broke out on Thursday evening.
Asked about the disaster at a press conference, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, "on social media platforms, forces with ulterior motives are linking this fire with the domestic response to COVID-19."
The Chinese authorities eased restrictions to combat the Coronavirus in separate areas but stressed the strict "zero-Covid" strategy today, Monday after crowds demanded President Xi Jinping resign during protests against the restrictions that oblige millions of people to stay in their homes.
There is no official figure on the number of people arrested after police used pepper spray against protesters in Shanghai and struggled to quell demonstrations in other cities, including Beijing.
The Beijing authorities announced they would not set up gates to prevent access to residential complexes where Covid patients were detected. On Sunday, protests erupted in more than one Chinese city against health restrictions that seek to implement the "zero Covid" policy.
Nearly three years after the first Covid-19 case in the world in this Wuhan, hundreds of people demonstrated, on Sunday evening, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Live videos on social media showed a crowd of angry residents gathering in this city, where the first infection with the Coronavirus was discovered in December 2019, aware that other Chinese cities witnessed similar demonstrations.
Parts of the Chinese were angered by a deadly fire in the country's far west, and Covid restrictions prevented it from being controlled in time.
Khazair Ruaq, Chair of the Iraqi Ministry of Health Cancer Council, said that according to the latest statistics of cancer cases recorded in 2020, "31,000 people have been diagnosed with the disease, with breast cancer being the most common among women and lung cancer among men.
He noted that the 2021 cancer report is ready, and the number of cancer patients is expected to reach about 37,000.
Rauq explained that the Ministry of Health is doing its best to provide cancer patients with free medication to treat them, especially some immune system drugs that are scarce in hospitals.
The number of cancer patients is alarming in Iraq and the Kurdistan region. In Sulaimani, almost 500 people are diagnosed with cancer daily; according to the Sulaimani health department spokesperson, the city has just over a million people.
Low air quality is one of the country's main challenges as it lacks enough vegetation and water to have natural clean air.
While announcing this news, Dr. Bahram Kandaei said: Following increased intestinal diseases and diarrhea symptoms, four more confirmed cases of cholera were identified, and the total number of people suffering from this disease in Kurdistan, the official name of Sanandaj, has reached 54.
Kandaei pointed out that contaminated food and water are the leading cause of Vibrio cholera bacteria. Sanandaj University of Medical Sciences director of public relations, said, “to control and effectively deal with this disease, our dear fellow provinces should follow the relevant health guidelines.”
Cholera outbreaks hit Rojhelat from year to year; 5 cases were registered in the last outbreak in 2021.
“myCOPD,” asks users to cough and breathe deeply and then read a short sentence three times to test if they carry the COVID-19 virus.
The tests also correctly identified 89 percent positive cases and 83 percent negative issues in less than a minute, according to The Sun. But the app could misdiagnose 17 out of every 100 uninfected people, compared to one in 100 for self-test.
The app uses data from the University of Cambridge, which collected 893 voice samples from 4,352 participants, including 308 COVID-19 patients.
The study also used voice analysis technology, Mel Spectrogram, to distinguish the voices of Covid patients from those who were not infected. The team built an artificial intelligence system based on neural networks that simulate how the human brain works.
It is noteworthy that the Coronavirus usually affects the upper respiratory tract and vocal cords, which leads to changes in a person’s voice.
Saman Sheikh Latif, head of media and communications of the Sulaimani General Directorate of Health, said that 385 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours in Sulaimani province, of which 192 were positive and 193 were negative.
The number of cases in all provinces of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq has also increased.
In the summer time the Kurdistan region has recorded a number of diseases such as Cholera, Congo fever and Covid-19.
A 27-year-old man from Gorazi village of Soran’s Khalifan district passed after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the disease.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health urged citizens to follow the preventive measures to avoid catching the fever.
The first case of the Congo fever was recorded a month ago in Erbil. The patient was a 17-year-old girl who recovered later on.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) health minister confirmed another case of Congo fever in Zakho. ‘We have taken necessary measured to halt its spread,’ the ministry announced.
Saman Barzanji, the KRG Minister of Health, announced that another suspected case of Sinjar has been diagnosed in Zakho. The patient is hospitalized in Duhok. ‘The patient worked in an animal slaughter house and he received the virus from animals. His condition is stable and he is under treatment,’ the minister added.
He said Congo fever is not a new disease, it is a common disease transmitted between animals and humans, and it is considered one of the most dangerous diseases due to its high rate of disability and death among the infected.
He added that the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government had launched several measures to protect citizens from the spread of the fever.
The minister said the number of cases depends on the case detection program by health teams, which is considered an essential stage of control; this process is carried out daily, and suspects are detected by taking samples.
Erbil recorded the first case of the Congo fever in the Kurdistan region on May 11. The patient was sent home after proper treatment, the health ministry said.
The disease is largely contained as the virus does not transmit from human to human.
‘The first case of Congo fever was registered, the patient is a 17-year-old teenager and he is under intensive care,’ Erbil’s general directorate of health announcedon May 10.
Babil, Dhi Qar, and Kirkuk governorates are other Iraqi cities where the disease has spread. Kirkuk recorded its first death associated with the illness.
Earlier, Kurdish authorities took measures to prevent the spread of the disease to the Kurdistan region. However, with declining economic and financial conditions, the region’s people are forced to seek dangerous jobs.
In light of a recent study, the world's mountain of discarded electronics, in 2021 alone, is estimated to weigh 57 million tonnes.
There now needs to be a global effort to mine that waste, rather than mining the Earth, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) says.
In addition, global conflicts also pose a threat to supply chains for precious metals.
The RSC is running a campaign to draw attention to the unsustainability of continuing to mine all the precious elements used in consumer technology.
It points out that geopolitical unrest, including the war in Ukraine, has caused huge spikes in the price of materials like nickel, a key element in electric vehicle batteries.
This volatility in the market for elements is causing "chaos in supply chains" that enable the production of electronics. Combined with the surge in demand, this caused the price of lithium, which is another important component in battery technology, to increase by almost 500% between 2021 and 2022.
According to estimates announced by the World Health Organization today, Thursday, the Corona pandemic caused between 13.3 and 16.6 million deaths in 2020 and 2021 alone, and three times more than deaths directly attributed to the disease.
The organization announced, “New estimates from the World Health Organization show that the full number of deaths directly or indirectly related to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 was about 14.9 million (within the range of 13.3 to 16.6 million).”
These estimates include those who have died from the coronavirus or its impact on overcrowded health systems in the past two years.
These estimates include, for example, people with cancer who were unable to seek treatment when hospitals were overcrowded and designated only for Corona patients.
The World Health Organization did not distinguish between direct deaths from Corona and other deaths from other causes related to the pandemic.
The new toll is more than double the official number of Corona deaths of 6 million. Most of the deaths occurred in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
In the report issued today, the Director-General of the Organization, which is affiliated with the United Nations, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the new number as "realistic", saying that it should prompt countries to increase investment in their capabilities to face future health emergencies.