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mission: International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. -> International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

notes: From the InterAction site - 2010 Pakistan Flood Response: International Medical Corps deployed a team of male and female doctors, paramedics and psychosocial counselors to a school in Peshawar, where more than 2,100 people have taken refuge. Within three hours, more than 110 patients – 80 percent of them women and children - were provided health care services. Ten of the women were pregnant. International Medical Corps will deploy nine medical teams, along with psychologists and hygiene promoters, to address the needs of the population in the worst affected districts, including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshehra, and Swat. Teams are seeing cases of acute respiratory infection, diarrhea and skin diseases. With the lack of clean water there is a high risk for outbreaks of disease, including cholera. ------------------------------------------ From the site - 2010 Pakistan Flood Response: -> From the InterAction site - 2010 Pakistan Flood Response: International Medical Corps deployed a team of male and female doctors, paramedics and psychosocial counselors to a school in Peshawar, where more than 2,100 people have taken refuge. Within three hours, more than 110 patients – 80 percent of them women and children - were provided health care services. Ten of the women were pregnant. International Medical Corps will deploy nine medical teams, along with psychologists and hygiene promoters, to address the needs of the population in the worst affected districts, including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshehra, and Swat. Teams are seeing cases of acute respiratory infection, diarrhea and skin diseases. With the lack of clean water there is a high risk for outbreaks of disease, including cholera. ------------------------------------------ From the site - August 6th, 2010 Pakistan Flood Response Situation Report: International Medical Corps Addressing Critical Psychosocial Needs of Pakistan’s Flood-Ravaged Displaced: August 6, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA International Medical Corps’ staff is on the ground in Pakistan providing medical services along with psychosocial support to help people whose lives have been devastated by the floods. Heavy monsoon rains in the last week of July triggered flash floods in several parts of Pakistan resulting in widespread destruction and displacement. An estimated 1,600 have lost their lives and more than 1.5 million have been displaced, with over 4.5 million affected. International Medical Corps immediately deployed mobile medical teams in the most severely affected Charsadda, Peshawar and Nowshehra Districts to provide emergency services. In addition to medical care to address basic health needs, teams are working to strengthen local coping mechanisms. In Charsadda, International Medical Corps met Abid, a 14-year-old boy, who saw his grandmother drown during the floods and is now experiencing grief. “I cannot forget that moment, I am constantly getting flashbacks and even in dreams I see water going up and I wake up screaming,” said Abid. “I am happy that I am safe but I am also sad that my home and school were destroyed”. International Medical Corps’ local staff members are trained in psychological first aid and are able to provide access to basic services and support to those experiencing normal reactions to disasters – fear, anger, grief and a range of other emotions – and to address each case with sensitivity. In a school in Peshawar – where more than 2,100 individuals have taken refuge - International Medical Corps met with a mother of 5 who recalled what her family had endured during the floods. “When the floodwater entered our house, we were all in a panic. Manahil [her 4-year-old daughter] saw my elder daughter Amina being swept away by the floodwater. She was saved and pulled out of the water, but since then, she is afraid of the water when I am bathing her and gets very restless when she is alone”. International Medical Corps is now helping the woman care for Manahil and Amina by teaching her basic relaxation techniques to reduce anxiety. International Medical Corps makes mental health care a priority in its emergency relief efforts by addressing the immediate psychosocial needs of communities struck by disaster and offering help to those with pre-existing mental health disorders. The organization’s teams in Pakistan are comprised of local, trained staff members who can communicate in the local language and understand the cultural context of the situation. International Medical Corps has been operating in Pakistan since 1984, providing primary health care services and water/sanitation facilities to displaced Pakistanis and Afghan refugees in the frontier areas. International Medical Corps Teams Treating Victims of Flash Floods in Pakistan Los Angeles, CA, August 6, 2010: Following monsoon rains that have unleashed the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years, International Medical Corps has deployed 6 mobile medical teams to assist victims in the hardest hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the northwest. In addition, GlaxoSmithKline, with facilitation from AmeriCares, has donated urgently needed medicines for immediate distribution by International Medical Corps to those in need. The latest government figures indicate more than 1,600 people have died and as many as 1.5 million have been forced to flee their homes, approximately 4.5 million affected. Authorities expect the number of dead is much higher as communication networks are disrupted and roads and bridges have been washed away by floodwaters, making access impossible. As the flood situation may further be aggravated by oncoming monsoon rains, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan stands to worsen. Immediately following the onset of flooding, International Medical Corps deployed a team of doctors, paramedics and psychosocial counselors to a school in Peshawar, where more than 4,000 families have taken refuge. More than 300 patients – 80 percent of them women and children - were provided health care services. Ten of the women were pregnant. A total of 75 patients received psychosocial support, many of them suffering from depression, stress and phobia. International Medical Corps has also deployed mobile medical teams, along with psychologists and hygiene promoters, to address the needs of the population in the worst affected districts, including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshehra, and Swat. As the organization makes mental health care a priority in emergency relief efforts, International Medical Corps is also providing psychosocial support including teaching local coping mechanisms to help those whose lives have been devastated by the floods. “Our priority is getting people desperately needed medical services. We are seeing cases of acute respiratory infection, diarrhea and skin diseases,” said Sonia Walia, International Medical Corps Regional Coordinator for Asia. “With the lack of clean water we are extremely concerned about outbreaks of disease, including cholera. Compounding this tragedy is that many of those affected were already displaced by ongoing conflict in the region, so their mental health needs are also enormous.” International Medical Corps has been operating in Pakistan since 1984, providing primary health care services and water/sanitation facilities to displaced Pakistanis as well as to Afghan refugees in the frontier areas. Since its inception 25 years ago, International Medical Corps’ mission has been consistent: relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster, and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated populations to self-reliance. International Medical Corps Teams Providing Relief to Flood-Affected in Afghanistan - August 6, 2010: Jalalabad, Afghanistan - Monsoon rains that have unleashed the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years have also severely affected people in neighboring Afghanistan, where International Medical Corps’ teams are providing health care services in the eastern provinces. Local populations have been forced to flee their homes or refugee camps and heavy rainfall has caused the destruction of two main bridges in the region, leading to blockage of critical medicines and supplies. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding in the last week of July, International Medical Corps mobilized quickly to administer basic health care services and assess needs in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nuristan Provinces, the worst-affected areas in Afghanistan. Mobile medical teams have visited returnee settlements to provide first aid and distribute supplies throughout the region. Teams have provided pre-positioned household kits, which include hygiene materials, blankets, stoves and kitchen supplies for families. International Medical Corps will continue to offer health, nutrition and protection services in its areas of operation within the flood-affected provinces. As flooding may be aggravated by additional rainfall in the coming days and weeks, International Medical Corps’ staff will continue to monitor the situation, in particular emergent outbreaks of waterborne illnesses such as cholera. International Medical Corps is supported by 278 community health workers in Nuristan Province, who will provide health education at the community level to prevent outbreaks of disease. International Medical Corps launched its first program in Afghanistan in 1984 during the Soviet occupation. It has continued to provide life-saving medical care and training throughout the country ever since and is the only international NGO operating in Nuristan Province. ------------------------------------------ From the site - "Our Work in Pakistan:: Pakistan has the world’s sixth largest population and is the second most populous Muslim nation behind Indonesia. After its independence from Britain in 1947, Pakistan fought three wars against its eastern neighbor, India, before its security concerns shifted westwards following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghan guerrilla groups turned Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province) into an armed camp during the 1980s and 1990s. Today, the rise of militant Islam in the loosely administered tribal lands along the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier poses the greatest security challenge, both to the Pakistani government and much of the world. It is here that remnants of the Al Qaeda terrorist group have taken sanctuary and where the resurgent Taliban have launched their challenge to the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. Armed conflict between militant fundamentalists and Pakistani security forces in recent years has created the world’s largest displaced population, including 1.8 million refugees—mainly from Afghanistan and an undetermined number of internally displace Pakistanis. International Medical Corps has worked in Pakistan since 1984, initially providing basic paramedical training to young Afghan refugees, who then returned home to treat neglected local populations. Our assistance extended in 1999 to the local Pakistani population in volatile frontier areas and in 2005, we were among the first to respond to the massive earthquake in the frontier area. Today, International Medical Corps provides primary health care services to internally-displaced Pakistanis in the frontier areas, offers comprehensive basic health services to Afghan refugees who remain on the Pakistani side of the border, operates an emergency obstetrics care center in the city of Peshawar and runs water and sanitation facilities in the tribal areas for internally displaced Pakistanis and Afghan refugees.
mission: International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. -> International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.