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Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n
Iraq’s Health Ministry needs at least nine trillion
\ndinars ($6.84 billion) to cover debts and contracts and secure medicines and
\nmedical supplies, MP Noor Adel, a member of parliament’s Health and Environment
\nCommittee, told Shafaq News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The requested amount is nearly twice the Health
\nMinistry\u2019s entire 2025 spending of about 4.8 trillion dinars ($3.7 billion),
\naccording to a budget monitoring report. Healthcare accounted for roughly 2.4%
\nof Iraq\u2019s 200-trillion-dinar ($154 billion) federal budget, equivalent to about
\n$78 per person for a population of 47.5 million, based on United Nations data.<\/p>\n
Financial pressures <\/a>were already evident in July, when Demand for medical services has also grown with Iraq\u2019s
\nHealth Minister Abdul Hussein Al-Musawi warned of a \u201cliquidity catastrophe\u201d
\nthat had forced the government to prioritize salaries. Parliamentary health
\nofficial Adila Hamoud similarly cautioned that prolonged fiscal strain could
\ndeepen the crisis.<\/p>\n
\npopulation<\/a>, while damage from the war against ISIS continues to constrain
\ncapacity in some areas. Health and Environment Committee member Shahad
\nAl-Hamdani told Shafaq News in July that more hospitals and primary healthcare
\ncenters were needed, particularly in Nineveh, where several major facilities
\nwere destroyed during the conflict and have yet to be fully replaced.<\/p>\n