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The Health Clinic in
Erbil provides primary health care, preventive medicine, and women health to low income
families and their children. The clinic is equipped with a laboratory that provides
blood tests and other laboratory analysis. Most of the services are free of charge
to the individuals and families. The services are provided to internally
displaced refugee (IDP) families, Victims of human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing from
the cities of Kirkuk, Khanaqin, Mandali, and Mosul. IDPs also include Turkomens,
Shiite families and other minorities fleeing persecution. The special rapporteur on Iraq for the UN
Commission on Human Rights reported that, as of July 31, Iraq's food basket had fallen 15
percent short of targeted protein needs and that health centers were receiving only 25 to
33 percent of 70 recommended primary health-care items (including emergency drugs). By contrast, a parallel study conducted by
UNICEF and local Kurdish authorities in the three northern governorates noted that child
nutrition had markedly improved in the north, and that the prevalence of underweight
children there in 1999 was almost half the 1994 level. Although the survey found that
infant and under-five mortality increased between 1989 and 1994, infant mortality in
northern Iraq dropped by about one-fifth and child mortality by about one-third from the
1984-89 to the 1994-99 period. UNICEF noted that "chronic malnutrition has remained at about 24 percent over the past six months [in the north], which is comparatively high for the region."
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