Maic.org.uk
Title
Welcome to MAIC - Medical Aid for Iraqi Children
Description
MAIC is a British Charity registered in February 1995. Its purpose is to donate medicines and medical equipment to paediatric hospitals in Iraq. MAIC is a non-political and non-governmental organisation.
MAIC was founded in response to the rapid deterioration of health conditions for children in Iraq. This was due to the collapse of the health care system as a result of the imposition of UN Sanctions on Iraq in 1990 and the ensuing Gulf War of 1991. Between 1995 and 2003, MAIC operated under the strict bureaucratic rules of the UN Sanctions. The Sanctions created a great impediment for the speedy delivery of urgently needed aid to Iraqi hospitals. There were unreasonable delays in acquiring the United Nations approval along with the issue of the export licence from the Department for Trade and Industry.
Following the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq’s infrastructure was left completely devastated. Economic and humanitarian conditions rapidly declined and the sanctions harmed the most vulnerable of Iraqi society; women, children, the poor, the elderly and the sick. The Sanctions were lifted after the 2003 War on Iraq.
