Two hospitals reopened Sunday (September 9th) in Mosul's heavily damaged western sector, more than a year after Iraqi security forces ousted the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) from the Ninawa province city, AFP reported.
The hospitals -- one an emergency centre, the other specialising in gynecology and obstetrics -- replace buildings destroyed in fighting that culminated in the group’s defeat in the city in July 2017.
The emergency centre has 75 beds and the other hospital 50 beds, taking the total number of beds in Ninawa province to 1,000.
But this is still well below the 6,000 available before ISIS seized control of Mosul in 2014, said Falah al-Tai, a doctor who heads the province's health sector.
"The province's health sector has suffered a lot of damage," he said, adding that with a lack of federal government attention, humanitarian organisations have been filling the gap.
The new buildings are prefabricated units, which have been installed on the sites of the original hospitals.
