By Todd Shea | Executive Director
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Since the end of June, CDRS has been involved in a major partnership with Imran Khan Foundation to provide Mobile Medical Teams and Support to overwhelmed Health Facilities and Healthcare Systems in District Bannu, where a population of 1 million people in has nearly doubled with over 800,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have escaped the fighting in North Waziristan between the Pakistan Army and The Taliban.
We have been deploying our mobile medical teams in and around District Bannu for 15 week to houses, schools, camps or government buildings where Internally displaced persons from North Wazisristan are residing. Our team is doing a heroic job, working in extremely hot conditions to serve suffering Human Beings. Our dear friends and Associates UK Medical Aid to Pakistan and many kind individuals are generously supporting our mission with medicines, fuel, water and relief supplies. CDRS has also been managing one of the two pediatric wards at Women & Children Teaching Hospital in Bannu and The Ghori Wala Rural Health Center in Ghori Wala. Before we arrived, the facilities were completely overwhelmed by the influx of patients from N. Wazirstan. They out of medicines and supplies, the hospitals were unhygeienic and short of staff and in a miserable condition. CDRS and IKF have brought in truckloads of every kind of medicines needed, resupplied all the items needed to provide adequate healthcare, brought in equipment such as incubators and suction machines and provided extra doctors, nurses and medical technicians along with logistics staff, cleaners and volunteers. We have manged over 36,000 patients, most of them Women and Children.
For the past month we have also been deploying mobile medical teams to Districts Jhang, Multan and Muzaffarghar to provide basic healthcare services, medicines and public health education to communities who've been devastated by the recent floods in Southern Punjab. So far we've treated more than 6,000 patients. H
We plan to remain on oh of these missions until at least the end of the year. We continue to run our Mother & Child Health Center in Northern Swat, but due to donors' attention on the two major disasters, we are fast running out of resources to continue running adequate health services there. I'll be traveling to the U.S. in November and December to raise funds for the continuation of our important work, which has just crossed the nine year mark in Pakistan, as the CDRS team started operations right after the october 8 2005 earthquake, and registered as a social welfare charitable organization in Pakistan in early 2006.
Please check our recent photos of both the IDPs Medical Relief Mission and the Flood Emergency Medical Relief Mission (Links Below).
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