The East Mosul Fluid Factory will be rehabilitated as the U.S. allocates an additional 10-million-dollar fund to Iraq to fight COVID-19.
The fun is allocated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that, in partnership with the Iraqi government, “will be used used to rehabilitate healthcare facilities and provide medical equipment and furniture to hospitals in the originally-identified priority locations of Basra, Duhok, Karbala, Kirkuk, Najaf, and Ninewa, as well as three additional areas: Babil, Dhi Qar and Maysan.”
A part of the fund is allocated to the rehabilitation of the East Mosul Fluid Factory, which was damaged by the Islamic State (IS) war. The factory is a significant Iraqi factory of “medical supplies to government hospitals, primary healthcare centers and pharmacies.”
Zena Ali Ahmad, the Resident Representative of UNDP Iraq, in the statement said, “The steep rise in COVID-19 cases detected over the past few weeks is gravely concerning and shows that the virus has not yet reached its peak in Iraq,”
“USAID’s generous contribution comes at exactly the right time, allowing us to target even more communities by expanding our geographical scope to an additional three underserved governorates,” she added.
In May, the United States provided the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Iraq with six million and 500 thousand dollars to support the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees in the midst of the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“The United States is proud to support this work to combat COVID-19 and assist the people of Iraq; this work will directly support citizens throughout the country to get the high-quality treatment they need to fight coronavirus,” Dana Mansuri, USAID Mission Director, said in the statement.
Earlier in April, Belgium, Netherland, and Sweden donated five million dollars to the Iraqi government to combat coronavirus in cooperation UNDP.
29,222 coronavirus cases have been recorded in Iraq as of now, among which 13,211 recovered and 1,014 died.
