Halabja Hospital
Construction work started in 1998 for a hospital with 100 beds in the city of Halabja, Sulemaniyah Province. This was exactly ten years after Saddam Hussein’s toxic gas attacks in the area. Construction work was completed in 2000. A sewerage system has been built together with a reserve power plant. A number of existing buildings were refurbished and allocated to the hospital. Sida financed the project.

Primary health care clinic operations
Qandil operated primary health care clinics in the provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulemaniyah between 2000 and 2003. Qandil provided 173 primary care clinics with support in cooperation with the Ministry of Health. Training, equipment, patient care and administration were primarily targeted at medical staff, while patients were provided with health education. This programme was supported by Sida.

Vaccination programme
Qandil worked on a vaccination programme during the period 1994 to 2003 in cooperation with UNICEF. Over 500,000 children were vaccinated against whooping cough, measles, TB, tetanus, polio and diphtheria. The programme was primarily conducted in northern Iraq – the provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulemaniyah.