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

FIMA GLOBAL RELIEF
among starved children, was appalling. There
were urgent needs from everything: food, water,
shelter, clothes, medical care and sanitation. UN
and other international relief NGOs, provided
relief work mainly at borders of Ethopia and
Kenya, and ignored Somalia inland, in view of
security concerns. Muslim relief NGOs, including
FIMA, were concerned with IDPs large gatherings
inside Somalia, especially in Mogadishu area, in
collaboration with:
Dr. Aly Mishal with Dr. Abdel Munim Abul Fotouh-AMU
Chairman- Cairo, May 2011
IMA-Saudi Arabia and WAMY deployed 3
medical teams to the eastern Libyan province. Dr.
Salih Al Ansari, IMAKSA president, pioneered
these activities.
• Somali Young Doctors Association
(SOYDA)- a FIMA member.
• Arab Medical Union (AMU):
A field hospital was established in
Mogadishu.
• Hayat Foundation-DWW-Turkey:
Several medical teams were dispatched. A
Mogadishu hospital was established.
• Islamic Relief (IR), with long-standing
activities in Somalia with offices, and other
logistics.
• Muslim Aid.
Hayat Foundation and DWW-Turkey provided
donations of essential medical supplies worth of
USD 300,000. A medical team visited wounded
Libyans under treatment in Turkish government
hospital in Izmir.
Later, in November 2011, the president of IMA-
Jordan visited Benghazi in a medical mission to
conduct cardiovascular surgeries, made contacts
with Libyan physicians to establish an IMA in
Libya.
Somalia:
Somalia and some neighboring countries in the
Horns of Africa have faced one of the worse
humanitarian disasters ever experience in their
recent history 22 . Close to 3 million Somalis
became in urgent need of humanitarian aid in view
of severe droughts, famine, starvation and mass
death. Another half a million of IDPs went to
refugee camps in border areas with Ethiopia,
Kenya and Djibouti. Mass fatalities, especially
Somali famine tragedy
FIMA appointed Dr. Ismail Mehr, IMANA relief
chairman, to coordinate FIMA relief efforts in
Somalia. He flew to Somalia in August 11,2011
for assessment.
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