Location: Falluja and surrounding area
Timing: August 2004 – February 2005
Budget: $27,982 cash
$100,047 in-kind donation of medicines

• In the months following the end of major combat operations Iraq’s health structures continued to be plagued by insufficient medicines, supplies and resources.

• Responding to the same situation described in the previous project, a partner agency approached AoC to support a project to preposition supplies in Iraq to be able to respond quickly to additional flare-ups of fighting and the resulting civilian casualties. In response AoC supplied 40 Interchurch Medical Assistance (IMA) boxes and funds for the local purchase of additional supplies.

• In November 2004 intense fighting erupted in Falluja a second time with many civilians caught in the crossfire. The majority of AoC supplies for this project went to health facilities in and surrounding Falluja, the first five boxes arriving 21 November. Each IMA box contains medicines to treat 1000 people for 3 months.

Assessment reveals low stocks in Falluja health facility. Photo: AoC

Medicines being delivered in November. Photo: AoC