International Medical Corps has been on-the-ground responding to the crisis in Libya since February 27, 2011. As access permitted and as were needs identified, teams expanded activities for a country-wide response, including eastern Libya, Misurata and Zliten, the Western Mountains, Tripoli, as well as the Egyptian and Tunisian border regions that received large numbers of Libyans and third country nationals fleeing the violence. International Medical Corps was one of the first international NGOs to arrive in Benghazi, the first to arrive in Misurata, as well as in Tripoli and the northern front of the Western Mountains. More recently, International Medical Corps has continued to provide support in Libya, including response activities for the high numbers of casualties and internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict in Sirte, Sabha, Jufrah and Bani Walid.

Since the beginning of the Libya crisis in February, International Medical Corps teams on-the-ground have achieved the following:

• 44 health facilities supported
• 43,515 medical consultations delivered
• 2,573 surgeries performed
• 968 people provided with care for medical evacuations, including 464 evacuations by boat.
• 206 volunteer medical staff deployed, including 55 surgeons and 108 nurses.
• Partnered with the Jordanian Health Aid Society to second 82 nurses to Libyan hospitals experiencing critical shortages.
• 2,003 people trained (1,401 trained in first aid, 445 trained in psychological first aid, 77 trained in gender-based violence issues, trainings for 36 ambulance staff, 33 emergency medics trained + other trainings).
• 147+ tons of medications, medical supplies, medical equipment, food, bottled water and hygiene items delivered.
• $11.0 million donated medicines and medical supplies by our in-kind partners delivered to needed health facilities.

Today we are collaborating and coordinating activities with the newly formed Libyan Ministry of Health and will continue to provide health care services as needed.