The Minister of Health is an official within the
Government of Iraq
The federal government of Iraq is defined under the current Constitution, approved in 2005, as an Islamic, democratic, federal parliamentary republic. The federal government is composed of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as wel ...
responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare through direct supervision of
Ministry of Health
As of 2010-2015, the current minister is Dr. Majeed Hamad Ameen.
On August 11, 2016,
Adela Humood Alaboudi, the minister of health, resigned after a hospital fire killed 12 newborn babies and injured 29 women in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
at
Yarmouk Hospital. She also fired the hospital director. The fire was set deliberately by eight people who stole millions of dinars.
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Health in Iraq
Health ministers of Iraq