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mission is to augment existing staff to
pick up trash and beautify the areas
around our health care facilities.
New arrivals to the MOH Team
Power of Combining Resources
This week’s briefs:
• Ministry of Health re-establishes
health care within the walls of AL
Barhib prison
• CPA team to move to MOH
The Abu Ghareib prison will soon have
medical care once again
In cooperation with the Ministry of Prisons,
the MOH agreed to provide care for
inmates and staff at the Abu Ghareib
prison. The new prison will initially have a
small clinic to support the prison population
and in the future a 40 bed in-patient facility
will be in place to support Abu Ghareib and
other prisons in the Baghdad area.
Pay day for Iraqi medical personnel.
The MOH and WHO are partnering to
renovate the #2 warehouse of Kimadia.
WHO is contributing $400,000 which is
being added to the $300,000 that the
MOH had allocated to start this project.
The total amount will be enough to bring
the facility back on line and Kimadia #2
should be ready to receive supplies in 60
days. The MOH looks forward to
developing other such partnerships with
WHO.
CPA MOH team moving downtown
On July 28th, the MOH began payments to
former Iraqi Military Medical Personnel that
are now part of the ministry. Over $2
million dollars will be distributed to these
employees using five locations over a 3
day period.
“Customer Focus” is the new outlook
As of August 2nd the CPA Ministry of
Health team will work full-time at the
downtown MOH headquarters. The
work hours for the MOH were extended
to 8-2pm six days a week.
USAID donates furniture and
computers
for the Kimadia system
The initial planning is underway to
improve on the logistics of Kimadia.
Interim procedures for ordering are in
place and the information is being
passed out to the governorates.
The Kimadia management is currently
planning to hold a national meeting of all
Kimadia leadership on August 7th at the
MOH building to discuss current and
future activities. Some topics for
discussion will be customer service,
ordering procedures and transition plans
for when the Oil-For-Food Program ends
in November.
Operation Clean Medical Areas will
Thanks to two grants from USAID’s
Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI),
hundreds of desks, chairs, tables and
equipment arrived at the MOH on
Tuesday. Ministry of Health personnel
were enthusiastic about such a visible
sign of progress.
Emergency Medical Training (EMT)
Dr. Kataiba Chalaby just arrived to
head up all mental health programs
for the CPA Ministry of Health
Team.
Major Pam Evans is the military
assistant and scheduler for Mr.
Haveman.
Mr. John Walker will be the head of
Budget and Finance for the MOH
team.
Farewells to the MOH staff
Specialist Jeremiah Cox & MSgt
Byrnes departed for their normal
military units after serving 3 months
with the CPA MOH helping to pay
MOH employees and deliver
critically needed medical supplies
throughout Iraq.
Ms Diana Tabler heads back to
Washington DC to resume her
duties as the Chief of Staff for
Health Affairs at the Pentagon.
All three will be sorely missed.
Articles of Interest can be submitted
to the MOH thru the interim News
Editor LTC Scott Svabek, USA, at
SvabekS@orha.centcom.mil; or
triggsk.GBR@orha.centcom.mil
start this week
soon be coming
The groundwork has been laid for the
initial EMT training for 50 “first
responders” in Iraq. This initiative was
created as a result of cooperation
between the MOH and others to ensure
life-saving care is supported through the
development of highly qualified “first
responders”
.
Medical Supplies continue to flow
Oil For Food Program supplies arrived at
Kimadia #1 to replenish inventory.
In support of Ambassador Bremer’s
initiative to create 300,000 new jobs, the
Ministry of Health has submitted a
requirement for 5,000 temporary
employees. These employees will work for
90 days under the direction of the Director
Generals of each Governorate. The
During this past week, Kimadia’s
warehouses received 450 tons of
medical while delivering over 550 tons to
regional Kimadia’s and other customers
in the country.
Upcoming Events Calendar:
31 July, 1100: NGO meeting
7 August: National Kimadia Mtg
21 August: National Vaccine Day