Britain is providing subsidies worth 11 million dollars to help flood victims connector


2016/10/23 14:54


[In Baghdad]


The British Government announced Sunday extra subsidies worth £ 14 million [11.4 million dollars] to assist displaced Iraqis from Mosul and surrounding areas of northern Iraq.

Britain's international development Ministry said in a press statement that "the International Organization for migration will allow aid to improve living conditions in the camps and concentrations of displaced in northern Iraq, particularly in Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salahuddin.

"The British aid will provide the basic materials and equipment of temporary shelters and brushes and safe drinking water and medicine to about 66 thousand people recently fled from military operations near Mosul."

"The medical team Britain consisted of 48 people will be sent to work in the camps in northern Iraq," adding that "team included 12 doctors years and four children and women doctors and 20 nurses and midwife assistant pharmacists and six health workers and six administrative assistants."

The statement warned that "nearly 1.5 million residents of Mosul may require urgent humanitarian aid with military operations to free the city from the grip of gangs of ISIS which will increase the pressure on the camps.

British Development Minister Preeti Patel in a press statement that the country "seeks to help the Iraqi Government to release the connector but at the same time working to protect civilians and prevent the exacerbation of the crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe."

She warned that military operations progress towards Mosul may lead to large numbers of people to leave, saying it is necessary to prepare well to handle any emergency in order to avoid the complexity of the human condition.

Patel indicated that additional assistance is part of a £ 40 million announced last month during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, adding that the country had made since 2014 total humanitarian aid to Iraq worth 169.5 million pounds. "


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