Iran Earthquake Relief Effort
March 2003
Direct Relief was one of the first U.S. organizations to respond to the December 26th earthquake in Bam.
A three and a half ton shipment of emergency and basic medicines and medical and surgical supplies for adults, children and infants, was airlifted to Iran on Friday, January 2 and used to treat surivors of the disaster at a temporary hospital in Bam.
The products contained in the shipment have a wholesale value of $330,000. Our primary liaison, Dr. Seyed Aghamiri, is director of the Red Crescent Society in Mazandaran Province.
Direct Relief International equipped two Iranian-American physicians, Dr. Nooshin Razani, a pediatrician from the University of California San Francisco, and her husband, Dr. Saam Morshed, an orthopedic surgeon, with specific Miltex orthopedic surgical instruments and sutures to carry for use in Bam.
They have joined Dr. Aghamiri to help administer health care to the thousands of people who continue to need assistance.
Upon their return to the United States, the doctors will leave these valuable instruments with a qualified Iranian surgeon who will continue the much neeed surgical intervention for trauma vicims of the earthquake.
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Magnitude: 6.6
Incident: December 26, 2003 in Bam, Iran
Human Cost: estimated between 30,000 and 70, 000 fatalities, more than 100,000 people left homeless
Damage: Between $700 million and $1 billion (USD)
Direct Relief Response: Direct Relief was one of the first organizations to respond. A three and a half ton shipment of emergency and basic medicines and medical and surgical supplies for adults, children and infants, was airlifted to Iran on Friday, January 2 and used to treat surivors of the disaster at a temporary hospital in Bam.
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