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 MEDICINE
FOR PEACE RELEASES STUDY ON IRAQI CIVILIAN HEALTH CARE.
See update to Report -2006
A Medicine For
Peace (MFP) Study Team has conducted the first comprehensive assessment
of Baghdad Public Hospitals since the start of the Iraq War in March
2003. The MFP Report entitled, Civilian
Health in Iraq: Assessment of Public Hospitals in Baghdad, was
released February 7, 2005, and concludes that, despite significant
improvement in a number of areas, many aspects of the health care
in hospitals are below an acceptable standard of care, and present
an ongoing danger to both to patients and staff. This assessment
should provide the groundwork for developing immediate and long
term interventions for a struggling hospital system. In this regard,
the data will be of use to the Iraq Ministry of Health, and will
help re-engage the international relief community in the continuing
health crisis in Iraq.
The MFP
Report and recommendations proposed to responsible agencies
can be downloaded.
 There
is another way. There are 7000 Bosnians still missing in
the region in the region of MFP's health project in NW Bosnia. This
excavation of the mass grave outside of Kozarac will continue for
a number of years. The MFP school-based mental health project in
Kozarac attempts to rebuild the lives of children and heal them
from the traumas of ethnic cleansing and displacement.
A small hospital in Haiti. The Alma Mater Hospital in Gros
Morne, in the mountainous region of central Haiti, is the focus
of MFP's new program in Haiti. MFP, working with the local community,
intends to develop infection control and education program (including
HIV/AIDS) and eventually develop a modern treatment program.
MFP
and its volunteers have received numerous awards for their
work with children throughout the world, often under hazardous
conditions. Renato Martini, Vatican Representative to
the United Nations has said of MFP:
"Medicine
For Peace is an organization which has not succumbed to
indifference in the face of suffering, but is committed
to assisting children who are victims of armed conflict."
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Update
- Civilian Health in Baghdad - 2006
(12/29/06)
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Iraqi Red Crescent
Workers Abducted
(12/18/06)
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News from
Haiti: MFP opens second clinic, AIDS data released
(12/1/06)
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MFP receives
award from new foundation to support work in Haiti
(3/25/06)
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Dr. Chris Hansen,
MFP board member, publishes autobiography," In the Name of Children"
(1/1/06)
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Medicine For
Peace Report
(1/1/06)
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