Assessment of Health and Community Services Provided for Families in Internal Displaced Camps in Baghdad City

Abstract

Background: The spread of terrorism in Iraq during the last ten years has led to the displacement of young families to neighboring countries and to other provinces inside Iraq. The displacement and the associated control terrorism to the displaced areas has had a serious economic impact on the displaced themselves and the residents of the territories, which displaced them. Terrorists stripped displaced from their property, and destroyed a large number of homes, and robbed and looted, so they completely miss opportunities to work free
Objectives of the study: The present study aims to assess the health and community services provided to internal displaced families in camps.
Methodology: Descriptive study of displaced families in camps for displaced people on the outskirts of the city of Baghdad and inside. For the period from the first of December 2015 and up to 15 of February 2016 included the current study, 5 camps for the displaced Sunni, Shiite and Christian parties to the Rusafa and Karkh communities and the number of households in the study were 374 displaced families in the camps (the Al-Jamea and the Al-Dorra in the Karkh district and camp Prophet Yunus , Al Nidai and camp Zayouna in Rusafa). The researchers used A questionnaire to achieve the purpose of the study which consisted of three domains (first domain consist of 7 items as a general information of camp and the second domains consist of 8 items relating to general information about the displaced and third domains consist of 6 items relating to health and community services as well as 4 open question to the views and suggestions of families and their desire to return after the restoration of security in their home areas) and the researchers used statistical system version 23 to entry data, and the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential.
Results: The results of the study revealed that a health center and a detachment of security inside is provided in four of the study camps and the lack of serious consumer association humanitarian organization within the study camps and indicated results related to the displaced that the 5-10 % of family heads is work after displacement in camp of Al-Jamea and Prophet Younis and that the proportion of 51.6% of family in Prophet Yunus have eldely persons, 90% of family in study camps is not have continuous income , the findings of present study revealed that a high percentage of students in the five camps and that the proportion of ongoing study were 3.6% and 19.2 only in Zayouna and Al-Nedia camp, concerning health and community services was the proportion of 26.3 % of the displaced families not have vocabulary ration card and 69.2 %of them not received the assistant from neighboring families and 81% did not include recently visited by governmental persons and the proportion of 76.3% %not covered by humanitarian aid, and 20% did not received displaced grant. While the vast majority of the four other displaced camps grant received a million Iraqi dinars.
Conclusions: The present study concluded that the level of health and community services provided to the study camps between the medium and the Al-Nedia Camp was the weakest in a communication services in the provision of aid.
Recommendation: Based on the results of the study, the researchers suggest the followings:
1. Create jobs by opening a marketing complexes and subsidized employment and solve the problems of employment and the provision of marketing complex for families.
2. Provide a private car at the entrance of the camp to secure their needs, particularly the elderly.
3. Follow-up families by neighboring schools for the purpose of motivating them to complete their studies
4. Allocation of private media committee for the displaced, and a website, take interest in the affairs of displaced service and is interested in the cultural and security awareness and be a reference for them to receive notifications and instructions and receiving the complaint, and everything related to their affairs.