Home Order of Malta The Order's Mission Spiritual Commitment Government History Medical & Humanitarian Activities Diplomatic Activities British Association Priory FAS Projects About Us Afghanistan Africa Bosnia CIOMAL Congo Czech Republic Holy Family Hospital Iraq Lebanon Romania Serbia South Africa St Petersburg Events Dinner Christmas Concerts Lourdes 2007 Helping Volunteer Donations Contacting Us Login Register	By the early spring of 2003, the Order had already started preparing for worst-case scenario in Iraq. They used £150,000 of funds to prepare help for about 50,000 war-refugees on the Turkish borders of Iraq (approximately £3 per refugee). The work includes basic healthcare packages for 30,000 people for four months at a cost of about 30p per person per day. The Order set up two water purification machines, producing water for 20,000 people and ready-to-eat meals for 12,500 families. Additionally, they intend to cover the emergency needs of 6 hospitals and 5 refugee camps in northern Iraq. The first priority is the supply of ready-to-eat meals, bread, blankets, tents and clean water. The emergency health kits' assembling costs are about £4,500. These can meet the needs of about 10,000 people for a month. According to the United Nations, 5,000 to 6,000 children die in Iraq every month. About every fourth child in central and southern Iraq suffers from malnutrition. Almost 2/3 of the population depends on food supplies from aid agencies. In order to survive, they have to rely on the monthly food rations of less than £5 per month. Hospitals and clinics are confronted with a lack of water, medicines, the absence of electricity and the rapid increase of patient numbers. The humanitarian nightmare that has become a reality will continue to need our help for many years. Emergency Corps of the Order of Malta (ECOM) Report from May 2003: The relief measures will be organized in two regions: (1) in Baghdad and the rural regions surrounding the capital on the one hand and (2) in Northern Iraq on the other hand. 1. Baghdad and the rural regions ECOM France has re-established contact to the Saint Raphael Hospital in Baghdad run by Dominican Sisters. In cooperation with the Embassy of the Order of Malta in Lebanon, in the end of this week ECOM France will send an eight-headed team with doctors, nurses and paramedics to Baghdad. Anne Broquet and Comte Alain de Parcevaux will be in charge of this team which consists of 3 members of the French Association and 5 members of the Lebanese Embassy of the Order of Malta. The team will, first of all, bring urgently needed medicine, medical appliances and a generator to the Saint Raphael Hospital in Baghdad. Furthermore, they will bring a mobile clinic to Iraq in order to provide basic healthcare for the people living in the rural regions in the surroundings of Baghdad. 2. ECOM Malteser Germany Malteser Germany will focus its operation on health centres in the regions of the Northern Iraqi villages of Erbil, Kirkuk, Kifri and Makhmour. Some of these centres which care for 50 to 100 patients each day where immediately provided with basic medicine of the first Emergency Health Kit which had been brought to Northern Iraq. In a short-term mission, we will provide four health centres in Kifri, Erbil and Makhmour with medicine, medical instruments and laboratory material in order to improve the diagnosis and treatment facilities. On a medium-term basis, it is foreseen to concentrate on the improvement of the medical care for women in the Kurdish regions. - All programmes will be run in close cooperation with Turkish and Kurdish partner organisations.