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

FIMA GLOBAL RELIEF
provided medical supplies to refugee camps
in Albania.
• IMA-South Africa (IMASA), in
collaboration with the Waqful Waqifeen
Foundation, provided medical supplies and
consumables.
• Bosnia IMA (BIMA) provided medical care
for Kosovan refugees who managed to arrive
to Bosnia.
• Several other IMAs from various countries,
sent their relief donations through
ARABMED or other IMAs that managed
dispatching teams.
Constructive cooperation took place among these
FIMA-member IMAs, as well as with other
Islamic relief NGOs, especially:
• Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).
• Canadian Muslim Women.
• Saudi Arabian Haramain Relief.
• Islamic Relief-UK.
• Mercy Malaysia.
• Waqful Waqifeen- South Africa.
• Arab Medical Union-Egypt and Egyptian
Medical Association Relief Committees-
Egypt.
On July 2 nd 1999, FIMA Council meeting was
held in Beirut-Lebanon. The Kosovo and
Chechnya human plights were top on the agenda
of the relief session in which the Council
discussed the relief situation reports from
professionals who came back from Kosovo. FIMA
Council re-affirmed its stance regarding
organization and widening of relief work in these
2 areas.
and purchased 2 well equipped ambulances, from
which, thousands of people benefited.
Prof. Hafeez Ur Rahman, led this third PIMA
medical team to Kosovo through Italy, after
attending the FIMA Council Meeting in Beirut-
Lebanon. They were joined by 2 Pakistani doctors
who stayed from the second mission.
Prof. Hafeez Ur Rahman, FIMA coordinator of
medical relief, had the opportunity to contact local
Kosovan physicians. Upon explanation to them of
FIMA structure, aims and objectives and scopes
of functions, they managed to form the Kosovo
IMA, led by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa of Prizron. The
team found a treasure of 17,000 Qur’an copies, in
Albanian language, stored in Albania. They
distributed all of them to concerned people and
mosques.
The team contacted 13 Muslim relief NGOs and
served in their clinics.
Chechnya Relief
1999:
Chechen people have resisted Russian military
aggression since the beginning of the 18 th century.
After over a century of struggle, Tsarist Russia
managed to occupy the whole region of North
Caucasus. This event heralded the first wave of
immigration to several countries, especially
Turkey, Syria and Jordan. 8
At a later stage, when NATO interfered and
stopped the Serbian aggression, refugees started
going back home, to find burned houses,
demolished schools and mosques. A new stage of
relief work emerged and FIMA volunteers started
to go to Kosovo, especially to Prizron area.
Practitioners from PIMA, in cooperation with
ICNA, established a clinic, mobile health teams,
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