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| The current situation Following the sudden onset of conflict in Lebanon, a serious humanitarian crisis is rapidly emerging. A million people have been displaced; abandoning their homes to escape the violence. Hundreds more have been killed or injured in the fighting. There is an urgent need for medical care in those areas devastated by the aerial, naval and ground-based attacks, as well as in the make-shift refugee camps populated by those who have lost their homes and have been left with little or no access to essential services. Among those who require immediate assistance are tens of thousands of children, elderly people and pregnant women. How AMAR can help AMAR International Charitable Foundation has worked in Lebanon since 1996 when it launched an emergency mission to provide assistance to the victims of the Grapes of Wrath campaign. Working alongside the Saudi Red Crescent, AMAR provided essential medical services to more than 46,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as they arrived in Beirut from the South. Subsequently, AMAR followed the IDP populations back to their homelands and continued to provide them with emergency care. Afterwards, in partnership with WHO and AGFUND, and under the authority of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, AMAR built and supported the establishment of nurse training schools which are now fully operated by WHO. AMAR’s commitment to the Lebanese people and its ability to assist them is therefore longstanding and demonstrably effective. Elsewhere in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, AMAR has 16 years of proven experience in providing health, education, water and sanitation for upwards of 500,000 Iraqis living in refugee camps and squatter settlements in I.R. Iran, the Iraqi marshlands, Baghdad and Najaf, as well as experience assisting Afghan refugees in Iran and in emergency responses to the Bam and Kashmiri earthquakes. What AMAR can provide AMAR is an implementing agency working under the guidance of WHO, other UN agencies, and the authority of national ministries of health. In this capacity AMAR can immediately provide emergency healthcare through mobile medical teams and fixed primary healthcare centres to help the stricken peoples of Lebanon. As an immediate response, AMAR proposes to dispatch up to six mobile medical teams who will operate from a fixed primary healthcare centre located in a major refugee cluster. These teams will provide the full range of primary healthcare services, including minor operation, water and sanitation, and preventative healthcare programmes. Specifically, AMAR will provide: • Primary healthcare services including: - Treatment of injuries including minor operations - Delivery of drugs - Immunisation - Laboratory diagnosis - Referrals - Mother and Child Healthcare services to cover pregnant women, children, postnatal care and gynaecological care - Growth monitoring and Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) • Clean water, sanitation, and environmental health activities • Health education services, including the Women Health Volunteer Programme The work of these teams will be undertaken in strict accordance with directives of the Lebanese Ministry of Health and the humanitarian coordination of the UN under AMAR’s existing Partnership Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding with WHO, UNHCR, and UNESCO. How you can help If you can possibly support this essential work then please donate via the ‘Donate and Subscribe' link above. No amount is too little. Thank you. |
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