Monday, November 13, 2006
UN News RhetIraq: Karbala Province Conditions for Families Displaced
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Quotes: From article titled, "Karbala says it will not host additional displaced families"
Iraq's Karbala province, 80 km south of the capital Baghdad, is overwhelmed with displaced families and can no longer host and provide services for an additional influx, a local official said on Monday.
"The province is suffering under the pressure of the increasing number of displaced families. Service directorates like health, education and municipality are no longer capable of meeting the needs of more [displaced] families," Ghalib al-Daami, a member of Karbala Provincial Council, told IRIN.
Al-Daami said that as of Saturday the council took the decision to stop hosting displaced families, other then those who could afford to rent houses or those who could take refuge with relatives.
“They should stay at camps unless the government helps with building more hospitals, schools and other service directorates. For example, there are more than 11,000 pupils attending the province’s schools and this costs us a lot," he added.
The provincial office of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said that 70 percent of nearly 8,000 displaced families, about 50,000 individuals, are living in tents at the IRCS camp in the city's main park, in mosques as well as in abandoned government buildings.
Quotes: From article titled, "Karbala says it will not host additional displaced families"
Iraq's Karbala province, 80 km south of the capital Baghdad, is overwhelmed with displaced families and can no longer host and provide services for an additional influx, a local official said on Monday.
"The province is suffering under the pressure of the increasing number of displaced families. Service directorates like health, education and municipality are no longer capable of meeting the needs of more [displaced] families," Ghalib al-Daami, a member of Karbala Provincial Council, told IRIN.
Al-Daami said that as of Saturday the council took the decision to stop hosting displaced families, other then those who could afford to rent houses or those who could take refuge with relatives.
“They should stay at camps unless the government helps with building more hospitals, schools and other service directorates. For example, there are more than 11,000 pupils attending the province’s schools and this costs us a lot," he added.
The provincial office of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said that 70 percent of nearly 8,000 displaced families, about 50,000 individuals, are living in tents at the IRCS camp in the city's main park, in mosques as well as in abandoned government buildings.
