IHP's support for the Pakistan Earthquake Emergency
IHP, on behalf of the UK, was the largest International Donor of Essential Medicines to the Pakistan Disaster. To date IHP has coordinated the following donations:
- £9.0m (wholesale value) of vaccines, medicines and supplies including 37 Doctor's Travel Packs - each with primary healthcare for 1,000 children and adults
- Over 500,000 children and adults have received treatment
- Over 280,000 meningitis vaccines, donated by Baxter, were sent in March to protect children and adults following a number of outbreaks of the disease in the disaster areas.
- 35 Company donors (see below)
IHP worked directly with the WHO and Pakistan Ministry of Health disaster coordination team in a three phase programme, responding to the initial immediate needs by:
- Providing emergency kits and theatre medical supplies. The first supplies from IHP were delivered immediately with 8 Doctor's Travel Packs being distributed by UK doctors with Humanity First within 4 days of the earthquake. Supplies for use within the emergency operating theatres were delivered within the first week;
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Supplying the WHO health cluster over the following five months with key essential medicines they required and requested, more than 20 international medical NGOs have benefited from these supplies; and
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Provisioning the 120 Basic Healthcare Units, managed by the WHO and the international NGO community over the first year to provide primary healthcare to the population in the NWFP and AJK earthquake affected areas
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20 Partner NGOs
IHP has worked in coordination with the WHO and other international donors from Canada (HPIC) and the USA. The UK headquartered charity - Islamic Relief - acted as IHP's audit partner and medical advisor in Kashmir. The WHO has coordinated the management and distribution of the medicines to regional dispensaries and NGO pharmacies.
IHP's donations of vaccines and medicines have been supplying the programmes and the medical teams in Kashmir of over 20 local and international medical NGOs working within the Health Cluster including: Charitas/Cafod, Humanity First, Islamic Relief, Islamic Aid, Merlin, MSF, Muslim Hands, Red Cross/Crescent, Response International, UNICEF, the WHO and the Vaccines Division of the Ministry of Health.
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Funding
The UK's Department of International Development (DfID) and Islamic Relief have both made grants/donations to help meet IHP's costs of sourcing, packing, handling and distributing the large consignments of donated medicines. World Jewish Relief and the Wainwright Charitable Trust and many individual donors have also provided the essential funding required.
35 Donor Companies
The programme was made possible by donations from a wide range of pharmaceutical companies:
3M Health Care, Almus, Alpharma, Ambe Medical, Antigen Overseas Limited, Baxter, Bio Products Limited,
Durbin (3), Ferndale, Genus (2), Goldshield (4), IVAX, Keyline Brands, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Niche Generics,
Organon (2), Pfizer Consumer, PLIVA Pharma (2), Ranbaxy, Ratiopharm (2), Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough (2),
Smiths Medical, Smith & Nephew, UniChem, Wyeth.
The following 10 companies have also provided donations to Pakistan via IHP's travel pack programme, in which many of the above companies (underlined above) are also involved: Altana Pharma, Athlone Laboratories (Kent Pharmaceuticals), Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis Consumer Health, Roche Products, Seven Seas (Merck AG), UCB Pharma and Winthrop.
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This site was updated on 09.05.08