Facts and figures: the ICRC in Guinea

15-06-2012 Facts and Figures

In 2011, the ICRC:

carried out 290 visits to around thirty places of detention;
connected Conakry’s Maision Centrale prison to the sewage system;
helped draw up emergency plans for two hospitals;
provided war-surgery training for 44 doctors at the faculty of medicine in Conakry;
drilled 40 boreholes in 30 villages for 38,000 people;
organized 36 awareness-raising sessions on IHL or human rights law for a total of over 2,300 members of the armed forces, the police and the gendarmerie;
organized five awareness-raising sessions on IHL in the universities in Conakry, and an IHL moot court competition in which eight universities took part;
organized a conference on Islam and IHL at Conakry’s international school;
supported Guinean Red Cross health operations involving assistance to almost 350 people and the evacuation of some 120 wounded.