The whole health care and medical sector in Samarra city is based on three main institutions, all of them belong to the public sector. These are:
- Samarra Public Hospital: a government hospital as its capacity of 200 beds staffed by 40 doctors in general medicine and medicine specialist, the only hospital in the city with a population of approximately (132878) people, and eliminate a population of 205664 people. Samarra Public Hospital, located on the western edge of the city center (where the highest density of the population (about 20% of the population living in the city center), and public services and commercial activities. Here, the site of the Samarra Public Hospital is very good in the light of population density distribution within the study area.
- Health Care Center in al-Qattool: it is a center for providing first aid; it has 8 doctors. It is characterized by containing the only dental clinic in Samarra. Located at the eastern tip of the city center, the site was not suitable for all inhabitants of the western sector of the city, and the patients get to the center of al-Qattool from the west side of the city center after a distance of two kilometers. That applies to about 35-40% of the population of Samarra.
- First Aid Center  al-Mu’allimeen: it is a center for providing first aid; 6 doctors
work in it. It enjoys the best location between the houses of medical care in the city from the perspective of urban density distribution, and is located in the center of the medium-dense population, and its relatively new buildings, and the affiliation of its
residents to the better-off social strata. The main logical conclusion to be drawn from surveys and the report of the first phase of the project is that the health and medical care in Samarra in very regressive, not only compared to international standards, and even when compared to data available on health care and medical services throughout Iraq, based on this compendium to a number of facts that will be shown in our following
lines.