fields and maintains medical/ surgical teams. provides relief supplies and emergency shelter materials. and improves water supplies and sanitary conditions in the refugee camps. UNICEF has established a medical supply system supporting Cambodias hospitals and clinics with pharmaceuticals and assists in refurbishing nutrition centers and supplying special proteinrich foods. The LWR. presently in its organizational phase. will direct its efforts to public health. health education. and logistic support of medical care facilities. Total AID funding support for these programs follows: Local currency (dollar Fiscal year U.S. dollars equivalent) 1973 -------------- $1.175.000 1974 -------------------- 2.325.000 $10.850.000 1975 (planned) ----------- 10.000. 000 23. 400. 000 During the last half of CY 1974. the volags distributed 1.400 MT of rice a month to an average of 342.000 refugees. In addition. emergency necessities. such as clothing. household items and farm tools. were given to an average of 45.000 people. emergency shelter was constructed for about 17.000 people. medical teams were treating an average of 47.000 patients a month. and food supplements were being given to an average of 60.000 children. These figures have increased since the upsurge in fighting in January 1975.
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