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Sadr City: MSF’s work in one of Baghdad’s busiest hospitals

Sadr City is an overcrowded 30 square km neighbourhood situated in the northwest of Baghdad, home to some 3.5 million Iraqis. There are just four hospitals to serve this population, the largest one being the Imam Ali hospital, which receives over 20 000 people per month in its Emergency Room (ER). An MSF team first visited the Imam Ali hospital in 2017, and immediately proposed improving the way the ER worked. MSF renovated the department and trained over 80 ER doctors and nurses in how to classify the patients correctly using a triage system (the prioritization of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition). By the time Imam Ali hospital’s new ER opened in December 2018, doctors and nurses were ready to work with the new system. Since then, the chaos that was a daily challenge has become much more manageable.

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Title Sadr City: MSF’s work in one of Baghdad’s busiest hospitals

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Date taken / Date Recorded 03/02/2019 12:00 AM

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Date taken / Date Recorded 03/02/2019 12:00 AM