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Margaret Aguirre
Director, Global Communications
International Medical Corps
Phone: 310.826.7800
Email: maguirre@InternationalMedicalCorps.org

International Medical Corps Responding to Refugee Crisis at

Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border

LOS ANGELES, CA, June 15, 2010 – International

Medical Corps is preparing to respond to the
refugee crisis on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as an estimated 80,000 ethnic
Uzbeks – many of them women and children and many suffering gunshot wounds - have
fled violence and poured into makeshift refugee camps.

“We are extremely concerned that tens of thousands of people are in desperate need of
medical care, in addition to basics such as food and clean water,” said Malika
Mirkhanova, International Medical Corps Regional Coordinator for Central Asia, the
Caucasus, and the Middle East, who is on the ground in Uzbekistan assessing the
situation. “There are already reports of dysentery spreading among children in the camps.
The Uzbek government is struggling to address the needs but has been overwhelmed by
the enormous population influx. The greatest need right now is for food items, hygiene
kits and medical supplies.”

While the official death toll stands at 125, with nearly 1,500 wounded, relief workers
estimate that many hundreds have been killed.

Thus far, only the International Committee for the Red Cross and UN agencies have been
permitted access to the Feghana Valley, as all borders to Kyrgyzstan have been closed.

Since its founding in 1984, International Medical Corps has delivered more than $1
billion in of emergency relief and health care services to devastated population in 50
countries, including during the Rwandan genocide, the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the
Indian Ocean tsunami and the earthquake in Haiti.

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Since its inception more than 25 years ago, International Medical Corps’ mission has been consistent:
relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster, and disease, by delivering vital health care
services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning
devastated populations to self-reliance. For more information visit: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org