Cornwall Kurdish Medical Aid

[inoc at gn.apc.org]

CORNWALL KURDISH MEDICAL AID
Landfall, Tregullon, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5BH
Tel: 0208 831401 or 831508
Fax: 0208 831678

Several people have come together to try to provide a focussed effort for
relief in Kurdistan.

Cornwall Kurdish Medical Aid was set up on Tuesday 9 April 1991
under the auspices of the Gaia Trust for Cornwall to provide the first
Medical Reception Station under the guidance of a doctor who was the
Senior Medical Officer at a Gulf POW camp in Saudi Arabia. Also
coordinating the initiative are Elizabeth Sigmund, who has worked with
the Kurdish people since 1988 and Chris Kinder, recent Chairman of St
Agnes Support Group to Gulf Forces.

Our target is to raise 100,000 immediately for the first of our emergency
Medical Reception Stations. We plan to locate our MRS as soon as
possible on the border of Iraq with an experienced team of doctors and
paramedics. With relatively simple treatment we could prevent the death
of many Kurds.

Since we started we've had a very good response to our request for
experienced medical personnel, but we need to be able to relieve the first
team that travels to Kurdistan. We need registered experienced doctors
and paramedics, together with local (probably Cornwall) support staff, for
the supervision of administration and the coordination of despatch of
personnel and medical supplies. 

Of course, we also need money. We have been promised support from
one of the aid agencies. We don't want to divert resources away from the
Kurdish Cultural Centre, but we feel that this project could be an
important part of the relief effort; hence the appearance of this appeal in
this conference.

If you want to make a donation send whatever you can to our "Cornwall
Kurdish Medical Aid" account at NatWest Bank, Fore Street, Bodmin,
Cornwall. Our account number is 68170440, sort code 60-03-54.

If you want to volunteer, or find out more information, post a response.
If you want to reply privately to this, please direct your reply to my
Greennet mailbox gn:inoc.

Thank you.

William Sigmund