War Response - Iraq

Since April 2003, Direct Relief has provided more than $12,000,000 of emergency and ongoing medical supplies and equipment to hospitals, clinics, and other medical and mental health programs in Iraq.

Specifically, Direct Relief supports Iraqi hospitals and healthcare centers with needed supplies like antibiotics for adults and children, ear drops, and drugs for pain management. Aid has even included included toys distributed to poor, hospitalized and orphaned children during the feast days of Ramadan in Iraq in order to help promote understanding and trust between the Iraqi people and the people of the U.S. and its military.

Direct Relief's main partner in Iraq is the Freedom and Peace Trust, a nonprofit organization based in Boston and Kuwait, works to provide critically needed medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and community-based outreach programs in war-torn Iraq, using Kuwait City as a base from which supplies may be more safely received and transported into Iraq. Direct Relief has worked with Freedom and Peace Trust since the onset of the current Iraq War.

Our efforts have also been supported by members of the U.S. Congress visiting Baghdad in October 2003. The participating members brought high quality surgical instrument kits for distribution to hospitals identified by the Coalition Provisional Authority and Ibn Al Nafis Hospital, a government facility ransacked during the war.