KRG Health Ministry issues 17 guidelines for new year holiday services

Dec 24, 2024

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Health has released 17 comprehensive guidelines to ensure constant healthcare services during the New Year holiday period and protect public health.

The key directives include:

1. Establishing monitoring committees across all general directorates and hospitals

2. Maintaining emergency hotlines for urgent cases

3. Ensuring medical warehouses and laboratory facilities remain accessible when needed

4. Enforcing attendance of specialist doctors, residents, rotating staff, nurses, and health workers for on-call duties

5. Limiting media access through official directorate channels

6. Implementing 24-hour daily reporting systems from 8 AM to 8 AM the following day

7. Requiring daily submission of statistical forms to general directorates

8. Maintaining ambulance readiness and securing fuel supplies

9. Monitoring cleaning projects and food provision

10. Keeping department supervisors' and receivers' phone lines operational

11. Maintaining emergency hospitals and outpatient clinics with proper patient documentation

12. Ensuring cancer treatment centers remain open for chemotherapy services

13. Maintaining blood bank services and blood supply operations

14. Keeping dialysis centers operational

15. Continuing 24/7 emergency response teams and 122 hotline services, with emergency medical units coordinating team deployment to necessary and tourist locations

16. Maintaining on-call drinking water inspection, communicable disease, and health monitoring teams

17. Continuing healthcare services for displaced persons in camps

These guidelines reflect the ministry's commitment to maintaining comprehensive healthcare services throughout the holiday period while ensuring emergency preparedness across the region's healthcare facilities.