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      <title>Polyclinic Project in Karbala for ID1.592bn</title>
      <description>A polyclinic project has been implemented in one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Karbala at a total cost of 1.592 billion Iraqi dinars.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69079/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>First Lab for General Health in Karbala</title>
      <description>The first laboratory for general health project was finalized on Wednesday, according to media spokesman for the Karbala health department.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69018/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Foreign Firms Offer to Build Hospitals in Baghdad</title>
      <description>Foreign companies have submitted offers to build hospitals in Baghdad, the capital’s governor said on Tuesday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68951/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Shabak Member’s Health Stable - Source</title>
      <description>The health condition of the Ninewa council’s Shabak member is stable, general director of the Ninewa health department said on Monday.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Karbala Health Department Receives $3m Mobile Hospital</title>
      <description>The director of the health department in Karbala on Monday said it has received a mobile hospital that is designed to serve visitors of the holy city.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Ministry of Health Denies Medicines Shortage</title>
      <description>An official source at the Ministry of Health denies reports that there is a shortage of medicines and medical supplies in clinics and health centers in some areas of the capital Baghdad.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68233/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Karbala Says Health Plan for Elections Wrapped Up</title>
      <description>The health department in Karbala said it has finished preparations for its health plan for the upcoming legislative election, scheduled to take plane on March 7.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Arbil Governor Meets Turkish Delegation over Health Cooperation</title>
      <description>The governor of Arbil has met with a visiting Turkish delegation to discuss means of boosting cooperation in the health sector.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68294/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Conference  Discusses Talafar Development Projects</title>
      <description>A conference was held in Talafar on Thursday for heads of government departments so as to discuss the provincial development projects in the district for the year 2010, a local official said.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68178/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Maliki Lays the Foundation Stone for a Hospital in Amara, at a Cost of $ 150 Million</title>
      <description>Iraqi Prime Minister, laid on Sunday, the foundation stone for a hospital in Amara, a total cost estimated at $ 150 million, according to Director of the Resident Engineer for the hospital.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67992/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Maliki Lays Foundation Stone for Amara Hospital</title>
      <description>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has laid the foundation stone for a hospital in Amara, which will be established at a total cost of $150 million U.S. dollars.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67892/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Health Ministry to Receive $6m Mobile Clinics</title>
      <description>A company affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals is working on a project to provide the Health Ministry with 100 mobile clinics worth $6 million U.S. dollars, an official statement said on Sunday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67878/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Child Leukemia in Iraq Triples, Nerve Agents Could Be to Blame</title>
      <description>Rates of leukemia in children around the Basra area of Southern Iraq have almost tripled in the last 15 years according to calculations by public health experts. Research published in the American Journal of Public Health documents 698 cases of leukemia among children under the age of 15 in the period...</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67922/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Basra Child Leukemia on the Rise, Says AJPH</title>
      <description>Childhood leukemia rates more than doubled in a southern Iraq province over a 15-year period, although the exact cause for the increase is unclear, researchers say.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67887/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Pharmacies, Clinics Closed in Diala</title>
      <description>Committees of the Diala Health Directorate launched a wide-scale campaign to close pharmacies and clinics in the province that violate instructions of the Iraqi Health ministry.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67886/refid/RSS-health-13-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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