MSF Hospital
The town of Qayyarah, some 70 km south of Mosul in the Ninewa governorate, lies on the west bank of the Tigris River. Before the Iraqi army retook the area at the end of August 2016 it was under the control of IS group for two and a half years. Close to Qayyarah, six camps now house up to 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs).
Qayyarah General Hospital was partially destroyed in 2016. When MSF opened a new hospital in December 2016, it was the only functional health facility in the sub- district for a population of 300,000 people.
Since 2016, the hospital expanded its medical services and today includes an emergency room, an intensive care unit, two operating theaters, a neonatology ward, ambulatory and outpatient therapeutic feeding centers, two inpatient wards, a laboratory and a mental health program offering psychological and psychiatric consultations. In April 2018, MSF also opened a ten-bed burns unit that is currently the only specialized medical facility to provide hospital care to burns victims in the Governorate of Ninewa. More than 160 people have been hospitalized and treated in the burns unit since it was opened.
Currently, MSF hospital in Qayyarah provides more than 330 medical consultations per month. Since January 2019, more than 6,200 emergency consultations and 1,260 surgical interventions have been performed, and more than 1,600 psychological consultations have been guaranteed to patients coming both from the urban area and the camps for displaced people.

MSF in Qayyarah’s IDP camps (Jeddah and Airstrip camps)
In 2019, more than 1.6 million people are still displaced in Iraq, according to the International Organisation for Migration (April 2019). 53% of the displaced population live in Ninewa Governorate. Up to one hundred thousand[1] displaced people are in the camps close to Qayyarah town (Jeddah and Airstrips camps) where in July 2017 MSF began an integrated nutrition and mental health project. Since then, MSF has scaled up the medical activities provided to the displaced population in the camps. Today, MSF runs a primary healthcare center including sexual and reproductive health services (antenatal and postnatal care, basic obstetric and new born care, family planning), a 24-hour emergency care service, outpatient consultations for pediatric and adult cases and chronic diseases, a vaccination program, a nutritional unit, mental health services and health promotion activities and sensitization campaigns in the camps.
Since January 2019, MSF primary health center has provided medical assistance to more than 130 patients daily. More than 13,800 medical consultations and 4,600 emergency consultations were performed; more than 250 deliveries were assisted and more than 500 individual psychological sessions were offered to the population living in the camp.