Iraq: Yazidi community suffers one crisis after another
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many people have lost what little hope they had left.
“The Yazidi people still haven’t forgotten what happened to them in 2014,” said Aeed. “The consequences of the carnage still dominate the area, with mass graves still being found. I see hopelessness in people’s faces. Some don’t even have enough money to buy food. It happens many times that we – the hospital staff – collect donations ourselves for some patients. There is nothing in Sinjar, even the water is not suitable for drinking sometimes. How do you think people feel when they have nothing?”
MSF began supporting Sinuni General Hospital with emergency and maternity healthcare in August 2018, and quickly realised that mental health was a huge unmet need in the area. Since then, the team has increased mental health activities to cover psychiatric and psychological services in Sinuni General Hospital, as well as group sessions and mental health activities for displaced people in the Sinjar mountain.
Serving more than 90,000 people, the MSF project in Sinuni provides health services for all communities in the area. In 2019, MSF treated 14,581 patients in its emergency room in the Sinuni General hospital. The team also assisted 755 births, provided 8,702 sexual and reproductive healthcare consultations and 1,434 mental health consultations.
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Iraq: Yazidi community suffers one crisis after another
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many people have lost what little hope they had left.
“The Yazidi people still haven’t forgotten what happened to them in 2014,” said Aeed. “The consequences of the carnage still dominate the area, with mass graves still being found. I see hopelessness in people’s faces. Some don’t even have enough money to buy food. It happens many times that we – the hospital staff – collect donations ourselves for some patients. There is nothing in Sinjar, even the water is not suitable for drinking sometimes. How do you think people feel when they have nothing?”
MSF began supporting Sinuni General Hospital with emergency and maternity healthcare in August 2018, and quickly realised that mental health was a huge unmet need in the area. Since then, the team has increased mental health activities to cover psychiatric and psychological services in Sinuni General Hospital, as well as group sessions and mental health activities for displaced people in the Sinjar mountain.
Serving more than 90,000 people, the MSF project in Sinuni provides health services for all communities in the area. In 2019, MSF treated 14,581 patients in its emergency room in the Sinuni General hospital. The team also assisted 755 births, provided 8,702 sexual and reproductive healthcare consultations and 1,434 mental health consultations.
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