Huge funding gap deprives 5M Iraq of health services amid conflict

Since hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes after Islamic State group fighters occupied their villages and government security forces responded to retake the ground, some 5 million Iraqis have not received health services because the needed funds are not coming in. World Health Organization regional director Ala Alwan, who visited Iraq, found it “alarming” that only 30% of the funding required by the health sector in the conflict-torn country had been received, leaving a gap of $218.7 million (206 million euros).

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