Shafaq News/ Health and environment committee in the House of Representatives, revealed on  Monday, for the percentage of doctors in Iraq that there is one doctor per 40 thousand of Iraqis, pointing out that the automatic appointment and mandatory for graduates of medicine and nursing was not enough to fill the shortage of medical staff that is suffered by the country .The head of the parliamentary Health and Environment Committee meeting of Al Yassin's "Twilight News", the health situation in Iraq is still suffering from a lack of senior doctors, and the proportion of one doctor for every forty thousand inhabitants reveal this fact. "The Inspector General of the Ministry of Health of Iraq Adel Muhsin acknowledged earlier, the existence of a severe shortage of doctors in Iraqi hospitals, and attributed this to the migration of a large number of physicians under the threat and the circumstances of insecurity experienced by the country during recent years, pointing to the existence of a trend in the ministry the adoption of a system of "family doctor".

The improved system requires that there should  be a doctor for a certain number of families, expecting that this will ease the pressure on the existing Ministry of Health.

Al-Yassin explained that "the Ministry of Health adopted a new approach in the recruitment of doctors and nurses. N o longer dependent on standard rate as a priority, but chose other criteria, including the areas of accommodation for doctors to ensure their fair distribution to all provinces."

A group of Iraqi doctors to reconsider protest at the deteriorating health situation in front of the Iraqi Health Ministry in Baghdad on 12.12.2011, as well as in the number of Iraqi provinces of Mosul and Basra, and doctors confirmed in a statement "Shafaq News" received a copy of it, they sent a letter to the three presidencies in Iraq and to the Minister of Health included the demands, which they described as "legitimate", which would improve the health situation in Iraq.