Third meeting on maternal, newborn and child health survey (MNCH)
16 May 2017

The high committee of maternal, newborn and child health survey (MNCH) holds its third meeting

 To discuss the outcome of MNCH survey, the high committee of the survey held its third meeting under supervision of the president of KRSO on May4th, 2017.

The meeting was attended by representatives of UNICEF, CSO (Central Statistics Organization of Iraq), technical team of KRSO (Kurdistan Region Statistics Office), and representatives from Health Ministry of Federal Government of Iraq where the preliminary results of the survey were presented to be discussed in the meeting during which the attendants made their comments on the results. The results comprised the results form household section and health service section.

 The field work of the survey was conducted in sample form in selected districts (Mergasor, Sharbazher, Shekhan, Amedi) between 10/12/2016 and 10/1/2017 and editing was done for data before it come for discussion.