UNAFHIR

UNAFHIR stands for "United Nations Austrian Field Hospital in Iran" and is the name of a humanitarian operation by the Austrian Armed Forces (ÖBH) at the request of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . A field hospital was used to help the Kurds.

In 1991, after the Second Gulf War, there was a mass exodus of Kurds to neighboring countries, primarily to Iran and Turkey . This resulted in a myriad of refugee camps in the border region of these countries; this sudden and strong influx of people could not be taken care of by these countries and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe . As a result, several countries, including Austria, took over the medical care of these camps. With pioneer soldiers and its medical service, Austria looked after a camp of approx. 25,000 refugees on Iranian territory in the area of the border triangle with Iraq and Turkey not far from the city of ORUMYIEH.

The commanders and medical directors of the field hospital were the later section head in the Federal Ministry of Health Robert Schlögel, as well as the later medical chief and commander of the medical school of the Austrian Armed Forces Brigadier Thomas Treu .

literature

History of the Austrian Armed Forces in 10 volumes - Volume 10: The deployments of the Austrian Armed Forces at home and abroad from 1955-2002 (see IRAN 1991) by Rolf M. Urrisk, H. Weishaupt Verlag Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3705900967
20 years of Kurdish aid in Iran, deployment of the UNAFHIR field hospital - leading article by ObstA A. Benc in the magazine "Der Soldat - The independent soldier newspaper" No. 15/2011 of August 3, 2011