FIMA Year Book 2010-2011 - Federation of Islamic Medical ...

FIMA GLOBAL RELIEF
In March 1994, Dr. Ozejr Skaka, from Merhama
Society-Bosnia, and later on, a founder of Bosnia
IMA, visited Jordan for several weeks, where
around 100,000 USD were collected by Jordan
IMA, Islamic Hospital and concerned
collaborators, to support relief efforts in Bosnia.
Following the Paris FIMA Convention, relief
activities escalated and became more productive.
Thirty six physicians were sponsored in Sarajevo
alone.
From December 1995 to April 1996, the medical
staff at Bihac Hospital received DM 35,000 in
salaries from ARABMED and IMA-Malaysia,
with medical supplies.
Parallel to this effort, the IMA of Egypt, working
through the Cairo-based Arab Medical Union
(AMU), and the Relief Committee of the Egyptian
Medical Association, chaired by Dr. Abdul Qadir
Hijazi, a previous FIMA president, provided
medicines, consumables, tents, food supplies,
clothes and salaries to Bosnian doctors in excess
of 2.2 million DM.
IMA-Malaysia and Mercy Malaysia deployed
medical teams, medical supplies and consumables
prior and after the cessation of hostilities.
IMA South Africa (IMASA) collaborated with
Waqful Waqifin Foundation in provision of relief
materials. This Foundation was able to send an
equipped mobile hospital, which was stationed in
the besieged city of Mostar. It, unfortunately, was
bombarded by Serbs. Two of its caravans were
destroyed, but the rest were functional.
From another FIMA perspective, the new Bosnia
IMA was established and joined FIMA as a full
member.
Kosovo Relief
1999:
Kosovo is located in the core of Balkan. With a
population of 2 millions, the original inhabitants
were of Albanian descent. The region fell under
Serb domination in the 12 th century. In 1389, the
Ottomans defeated the Serbs and dominated the
country. 6 Kosovo people embraced Islam.
After the Balkan war in 1912-1913, Serbs found
their chance to control Kosovo again. Following
the London Conference in 1913, the territories
inhabited by the Albanian people were subdivided
into two parts. One was Albania, and the other
was Kosovo, which was dominated by the Serbs. 7
Since then, the Serbs applied a policy of ethnic
cleansing and land appropriation, in a policy to
establish Greator Serbia. Many Kosovans were
forced to migrate to Albania, Turkey and other
parts of the world. 7
The Kosovan refugee crisis started in early 1999,
when kosovans waged campaigns demanding their
human and national rights, and the Serb authorities
reacted with extreme and harsh measures.
Relief after the War:
Following the Dayton Peace Accord on November
30,2002, more than 919,000 Bosnian refugees and
internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned
homes 5,6 . Seventy four percent of whom returned
to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
While the rest returned to Serb Republic. Nearly
half a million people were still outside Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Relief work, since then, took new and different
avenues.
Kosovo in the core of Balkan
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