Refugees Medical Service Project
Bosnia-Herzegovina
www.pitt.edu/~ginie/bosnia/le.html www.rferl.org/bd/ss/index-eng.html
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Refugees Medical Service Project
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In the past chapters of IRFF Italy, Austria and Germany coordinate several humanitarian missions and service projects in B.H. and in the refugees camps located in Croatia, from 1992 to 1996. Today the IRFF chapter of Bosnia-Herzegovina from September 15, to December 15, 2000 in cooperation with the Red Cross of Zenica delivered a medical service program to 14 refugee's camps. |
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Two medical team formed by pediatrics, nurses, epidemiologist and medical technician were able to assist 1.036 patient and medicine were distributed to 945 refugees.
IRFF will like to continue with this effort also in 2001 and we like to request you support. A simple donation can go a long way in this effort. For details please contact: At the end of 1999, about 830,000 persons were internally displaced in Bosnia, some 487,000 in the ethnic Muslim and Croat-controlled entity known as the Federation, and 343,000 in Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb entity. |
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Bosnia also hosted about 60,000 refugees; 40,000 ethnic Serbs from Croatia and 20,000 refugees of various ethnicities's from Yugoslavia. As many as 80,000 refugees fleeing military conflict in Yugoslavia entered Bosnia in 1999. Although more than half had returned by year's end, some Yugoslav refugees, mostly Kosovo-Roma, continued to trickle into Bosnia. Beside several Bosnian became displeased person do to the new political and social setting in the country. Even do the media world is in this days focusing more in other trouble parts of the world, the settlement and stability in this country still need a greater attentions and effort, particularly in the re-settlement of refugees and displaced persons. |
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