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Capital:
Baghdad (33°20'N 44°26'E)
Largest City: Baghdad
Area: 168,754 sq mi
Water: 1.1%
Population: 26,074,906
(2005 est.)
Official language(s):
Arabic and Kurdish
Climate: mostly desert; mild
to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern
mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience
cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early
spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and
southern Iraq
Terrain: mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian
border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along
borders with Iran and Turkey
For more than thirty years
physicians and other medical personnel have worked in Karbala
and Hilla with little or no new equipment, supplies, or
training.
 Their
desire to help their people is as great as the desire of
physicians in the United States or any other country. But, they
have been limited by the former government that was determined
to keep them decades behind in the field of medicine.
With that government gone and another in the process of taking
positions of leadership, the opportunity to help has arrived.
Already Innovative Humanitarian Solutions has shipped two
forty-foot containers of equipment/supplies and had many trunks
of smaller items delivered by short-term.
But one of the needs the physicians
continue to express is to learn the latest research and methods
so they better care for their people. Two individuals have
already given $7,500 to help the hospital in Karbala have access
to the internet and the wealth of information there.
Now our goal is to set up a web site to which they can send
questions, case studies, etc. When their question reaches the
web site an email will be sent to a selected group of physicians
who can help them. When the help is posted on the same web site
an email will automatically be sent to the physicians in Karbala
so they will know the response is waiting for them. The dream is
to eventually link physicians in other countries to this same
web site.
Needed Now:
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Someone who
can develop the web site.
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Finances for
the web site and possibly some additional equipment for the
hospital in Karbala.
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Internet
access for the hospital in Hilla.
The cost is unknown. We are praying
someone will help who can help determine the cost and the steps
in developing this project. |
