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Sudan: field newsletter – January 2010 - June 2011
05-12-2011 Field Newsletter
A round-up of activities carried out by the ICRC in Sudan from January 2010 to June 2011
Between January 2010 and June 2011, the ICRC has:
- provided around 920,000 people in Darfur, central and southern Sudan with emergency food rations;
- built and repaired water yards and hand pumps in Darfur and central and southern Sudan, where over 450,000 people and their livestock gained access to clean drinking water;
- provided seven primary health-care centres all over Darfur, where more than 350,000 people were treated, with drugs and medical supplies;
- deployed a mobile surgical team that performed operations on 85 weapon-wounded patients in Malakal hospital;
- supported eight physical rehabilitation centres where more than 5,500 patients received services;
- supported almost 131,000 livestock owners, by vaccinating their animals;
- delivered around 20,000 Red Cross messages between separated family members;
- held sessions with around 8,500 arms carriers and civil society members, informing them about the ICRC and discussing international humanitarian law;
- supported the Ministry of Health with their vaccination campaigns through which over 83,000 children in Darfur were vaccinated against childhood diseases.
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