الإقليم الوظيفي للخدمات الصحية في مدينة كربلاء

Functional Region Of Healthy Services In Karbala city

The study dealt with the objectives and methodology used to study an important part of the system of community services. It is namely health services to study the spatial distribution and to identify the appropriateness of this distribution to the aspirations of the population of the city and residents of neighboring regions and identify the areas of influence career.

The study was based on a number of scientific methods. The most important of which is the field study through the field survey of the health institutions and the questionnaire form. The analytical study of the functional region of health services in Karbala showed the spatial interaction between the city and the surrounding areas of the city. Despite the inadequacy of the health institutions with the population and its inconsistency in many indicators local standards demonstrated by the results of the analysis.

The study has been showed that the city of Karbala receives a large number of health care providers throughout the year. This number is increasing in the number of days of the million visits that the city is witnessing to include even the international countries, which contributes to the formation of great pressure on the system of services especially the government hospitals that suffer from the great shortage.

The study proved through the historical development of health services that the city of Karbala has not established any hospital since 1991. This study proved that there is a large spatial gap between hospitals and health centers throughout the city due to the obvious imbalance in their spatial distribution. The private hospitals witnessed a very significant development after the establishment of three hospitals in the last decade. Its host territory is more extended than government hospitals, especially the financial facilities provided by the holy sites of some categories of Iraqi society. As well as contracting with prominent The international companies to equip their hospitals with specialized staff of doctors, nursing professionals, devices and modern technologies. Throughout the analysis of questionnaire.

It could be said that the results of the satisfaction of beneficiaries are very negative and directed to the dissatisfaction of the guest on health services.  It turned out that most of them spread out of the city limits, especially the center of Sayeda Zeinab (a.s) and center  Warith whereas the health centers were limited to the city’s population only. It did not exceed the administrative boundaries of the city because it operated on the basis of the specific geographical area and was exclusively dedicated to serving the inhabitants of the city revival.