Iraq:
In the town of Qayyarah, 70 km south of Mosul, which was under the control of the IS group till 2016, MSF hospital’s burns unit tends to get much busier in winters due to domestic fires that occur when people living in poor conditions are forced to heat their homes with Kerosene heaters and in turn get hurt. These accidents are especially prevalent in the IDP camps were families are cramped in small tents that provide minimal protection from the Iraqi winter where temperatures can plummet to zero. In April 2018, MSF opened a ten-bed burns unit, in MSF Qayyarah Hospital, which is until now the only specialized medical facility to provide hospital care to burn patients in the whole governorate of Ninawa. Patients are referred from all over the Governorate after suffering from domestic incidents, explosions, suicide attempts and violent trauma. Patients, especially those with a large percentage of their body covered in burns, are at risk of dehydration and hypothermia and require very close monitoring. An infection of a large burn could easily cause the death of a severely injured patient. Recently due to be able to meet the needs, MSF increased the number in the burns wards to 25 beds.