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By Amina Shadab and Tara Fatehi: Whenever you read about South Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), people will tell you about two things: The corruption within the government and the overwhelming, booming economy. With many western and Middle Eastern, multi-million dollar businesses investing in Kurdistan, it is being labeled the next Dubai. It…
By Amina Shadab and Tara Fatehi: Anyone working in the healthcare sector should have a clear understanding of ethics and the part they play in medical diagnosis. 80 per cent of good medical practice derives from the ethics used which will then, in essence, lead to good patient care. Unfortunately, the quality of patient care…
By Amina Shadab: Passive smoking is commonly understood as inhaling second hand smoke (SHS) from an active smoker. However, there is another type of passive smoking, through the environment, called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The focus of this article is on the implications of passive smoking for pregnant women and their babies in Kurdistan. Since 1988…
By Laween Atroshi: Throughout history Kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To tackle this misperception and gain international credibility for our Kurdish professionals I feel we have an ethical and moral duty to represent Kurdistan on different platforms. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
By Dr Shakawan Ismaeel: Kurdistan health care reform has been talked about for a very long time but the main ruling parties, PUK and KDP, have never put their full weight behind it.Mala Bakhtyar, the director of the PUK political bureau, has for the first time spoken about the status of the health system in Kurdistan…
By Dr Shakawan Ismaeel: Recently in my hospital we met a representative of a medical company who was very keen to sell us a new technology. My colleague had told me a few days earlier about this meeting but I did not commit to it as we often see company representatives who always try a hard-sell…
By Laween Atroshi: Kurds have a famous saying of having no friends but the mountains due to their being let down throughout history and so being unable to trust anyone. However, from my experience on a visit to the Kurdistan autonomous region of Iraq, this is starting to happen with the healthcare system. Due to…
By Dr Shakawan Ismaeel: Hundreds of trainee doctors have been on strike since last week in Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). With the exception of those working in emergency departments, doctors walked out from all the major hospitals in Erbil. They have announced seven demands including: Better security for doctors…
By the Preemptive Love Coalition: Without making things overly simplistic, the Preemptive Love Coalition began with, well, love. Love for the Kurdish people. Love for their most hopeful and peaceful aspirations. Love for the hidden beauties of their culture. And love for their kids who are dying from broken hearts. In July 2007, Jeremy Courtney and Cody Fisher…
By Dr Shakawan Ismaeel: The Kurdistan health minister announced on Wednesday that an extra 45 billion Iraqi dinar will be spent on heart surgery and on opening additional evening public clinics: 15 billion in Erbil, 22 billion in Sulaymani and 8 billion in Duhok. He also announced that around 100 overseas doctors and nurses will be…
