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Dr Al Gasseer will oversee the multinational team which is trying to get Iraq's hospitals, clinics and other health services back into shape.

She aims to take charge on December 15, with Amman as a temporary base, from where she will make frequent trips into Iraq.

Dr Al Gasseer will manage all WHO activities within Iraq, bringing together and mobilising teams from the UN, the US, Europe and Iraq.

"It will be my responsibility to mobilise available resources to achieve the overall health policy and programmes for Iraq and the Iraqi people," she told the GDN yesterday, from her office in Geneva.