Baghdad The Ministry of Health has disclosed its procedures to confront the challenges of communicable diseases and the possibility of preventing their entry into Iraq, including monkeypox and other epidemics and other pandemics.
The official spokesman for the ministry, Saif Al-Badr, stated, in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), that “the challenges of cholera, rabies, monkeypox, corona, hemorrhagic fever, communicable diseases and other pandemics are among the priorities of the work of the Ministry of Health and the Public Health Department in particular, in coordination with the World Health Organization.” “.
He explained, “Many countries have announced that they have recorded monkeypox infections, and this transmissible disease was previously confined to the African continent, but during the past months, infections were recorded in countries outside Africa and in countries close to Iraq.”
He added, “The Ministry of Health is following closely and seriously, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, these changes, and is taking all measures that would prevent the entry of this disease,” noting that “monkeypox disease is considered a new outbreak, and we are following its initial symptoms, whether they are visible symptoms or Diagnostic tests, and if there is any doubt about the possibility of infection or that the person is a carrier of the disease, we take preventive measures immediately.”
Regarding the entry of foreign arrivals into Iraq, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health explained, “The expatriate whose stay in Iraq is longer, whether for work or tourism, is obliged to conduct tests in specific centers for communicable diseases, including AIDS, viral hepatitis, and others,” noting that “in every port by air, land or sea, for the purposes of travel and the movement of citizens to and from Iraq, a health care center is available, and one of its duties is to pay attention to the possibility of transmission of communicable diseases and variables of primary symptoms, and there is direct coordination between the Ministry of Health and its counterparts in the countries of the region of Iraq.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency