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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
11.12.2006
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December 11,
2006 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq)
Third group of children to fly to Italy for
life-saving treatment - krg.org
Erbil, - Thirty-nine children from the Kurdistan
Region with life-threatening illnesses will fly to
Italy on Tuesday to receive specialist treatment
that cannot be provided at home. The children, who
will be sent on a specially chartered plane, could
die in the near future unless they receive expert
care.
This is the third flight of the year. Including the
children boarding tomorrow's flight, 146 children
will have gone to Italy for treatment this year. So
far, 49 of those who left in the previous missions
have returned completely recovered. 14 doctors from
Kurdistan have also gone to Italy at the same time
for training in treating the illnesses, and two of
them were awarded a four-year scholarship to study a
specialisation in cardio-surgery.
Providing care for the children during their trip
and treatment will be their family members, four
doctors from Kurdistan and 16 Italian doctors and
health personnel. The children suffer from
congenital heart disease, cancer or leukaemia.
The whole project was made possible by the Kurdistan
Regional Government and the Italian Government,
through the Mediterranean Institute of Haematology (MIH),
and upon the initiative of KRG Prime Minister
Nechirvan Barzani.
The Kurdish NGO Hevi, through its children's section
called Nazdar, collected data on the patients and
made preparations for the trip in cooperation with
the KRG's Ministry for Health and assisted by local
NGOs. Hevi is also funding the travel costs.
An Italian medical team from the Mediterranean
Institute of Haematology has examined this year more
than 1,000 children and selected the most urgent
cases.
The Mediterranean Institute of Haematology has
offered to provide a revolutionary treatment using
bone marrow transplants for the thalassemia and
cancer cases and they have conducted more than 300
tests to find potential donors for those cases. As
the transplant recipients will have to stay in Italy
for a year until the therapy is finished, they will
travel with their families and bone marrow donors.
Some of the children will receive operations for
congenital heart disease. The Kurdistan Region
suffers from very a high rate of severe congenital
diseases, which so far remain unexplained and could
have been caused by the policies of Saddam Hussein's
regime over several decades.
MPs seek to solve linguistics issues
The projects were drafted in Arabic and then
translated into Kurdish.
Up to 40 Kurdistan MPs submitted a memorandum to the
Kurdistan parliament, seeking a solution to
linguistics errors in all government projects, local
media reported.
The projects were drafted in Arabic and then
translated into Kurdish, causing improper
translation. "It is time to draft our projects in
Kurdish, which is the other official language in
Iraq beside Arabic," Arez Abdullah, a Kurdish MP,
told the media.
"We have requested a professional committee to
review the projects and have professional
translators draft the legal projects into the
Kurdish language," Mr. Abdullah added.
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