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What the ICRC is doing in Iraq
29-10-2008 Operational Update
Iraq 2008 - Key facts and figures
Maps of ICRC activities in Iraq in 2008
Water
The ICRC is concentrating on renovating existing water supply infrastructure. This includes water networks, pumping stations and filtering stations. The aim is for the maximum number of people to have clean drinking water.
Around 4 million Iraqis benefited from the ICRC's assistance.
Health
We are renovating and supporting health facilities such as clinics, hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres, so they can provide both emergency and long-term care. ICRC support includes providing medicines and medical equipment.
The ICRC is supporting specialists through training and experience-sharing. Iraq has suffered a major brain drain in recent years. It is therefore essential to help health personnel and other skilled staff to cope with current needs. The ICRC ran several courses and seminars during 2007 and 2008 and there will be more in 2009.
4,350 war-wounded persons treated thanks to ICRC support.
248 tonnes of medical supplies, drugs and surgical materials delivered to 70 hospitals and 18 primary health-care centres.
19,000 persons benefited from physical rehabilitation in 10 physical rehabilitation centres.
Food
The ICRC is providing food to those most in need.
290,000 persons received food and other essential items from the ICRC.
Livelihood
The ICRC is helping families secure their future by setting up and running income-generating activities.
More than 5,500 households (approximatively 33,000 persons) benefited from the ICRC's support.
Detention
The ICRC is visiting people detained by the US-led coalition and the Iraqi authorities. These visits are an essential means of verifying treatment and conditions of detention. The ICRC is also enabling detainees to maintain contact with their families through Red Cross messages and by facilitating visits to places of detention, such as in the case of Bucca Camp near Basra.
Currently the ICRC visits 19,000 detainees held under MNF-I authority and 12,000 detainees held under Iraqi and Kurdistan regional governement authority.
Almost 19,000 detainees benefited from the family visit programme.
Missing persons
The ICRC attaches great importance to the issue of missing persons in Iraq. Thousands of Iraqis have gone missing over the last three decades. The ICRC assists the Iraqi authorities in clarifying the whereabouts of persons who went missing during the Iran-Iraq war and during the 1991 and 2003 wars. The ICRC will continue to assist the ministries of health and human rights by supporting the Medical-Legal Institute in Baghdad and by training staff involved in the exhumation, identification and preservation of human remains.
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