Queen
Rania of Jordan today paid tribute to the work of the Iranian
Red Crescent and the International Federation when she paid
a surprise visit to the newly established Red Cross Red Crescent
referral hospital in earthquake devastated Bam.
"I am glad that the Red Cross and Red Crescent is taking
long-term responsibility in this devastated area and you seem
to be the most active," she told Halvor Lauritzen, the
International Federation team leader from Norway who showed
her around the 200-bed hospital built with support from ECHO.
The Queen found time to chat quietly with the 97-year old woman,
Shahrbanoo Mazandarani who was rescued from the ruins of her
home nine days after the earthquake by Iranian Red Crescent
volunteers and is now a patient on the Red Cross Red Crescent
medical ward.
"Queen Rania was very concerned about the elderly lady's
future and said she would take an active interest in what happens
to her now," said Lauritzen.
The VIP visitor was greeted on the maternity ward by Finnish
nurse, Orvokki Iso-Möttönen, showing off a beautiful
baby boy born just an hour before the Queen arrived. "We
are very happy that were the first one to say hello to the first
born baby in this hospital but I can assure you that it will
not be the only one," said the nurse.
For further information, or to set up interviews
please contact:
In Bam:
Denis McClean, Head, Media service - Tel: + 882 162 111 5487
Spanish Red Cross
Cristina Estrada - Tel: + 882162 111 55 77
German Red Cross
Fredrik Barkenhammar - Tel: + 88 163 144 92 17
Qatar Red Crescent
Farooq Burney (Urdu / Hindi) - Tel: + 88 216 616 7774
Finnish Red Cross
Lasse Kylanpaa - Tel: + 870 762 565 777
Norwegian Red Cross
Marit Opland - Tel: + 882 165 110 5857
Canadian Red Cross
Suzanne Charest - Tel: + 98 912 217 25 07
Italian Red Cross
Stefano Mariani - Tel: + 88 21 65 11 01 326
In Geneva:
Marie-Françoise Borel, Press Officer - Tel: + 41 79 217
33 45
Duty phone - Tel: + 41 79 416 38 81
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Queen
Rania paid a surprise visit to the newly established Red
Cross Red Crescent referral hospital in earthquake devastated
Bam(p10962 - Marit Opland, Norwegian Red Cross
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Queen Rania found time to chat quietly with 97-year-old
Shahrbanoo Mazandarani who was rescued from the ruins
nine days after the earthquake (p10964 - Marit Opland,
Norwegian Red Cross)
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Finnish
nurse, Orvokki Iso-Möttönen, showing off a beautiful
baby boy born just an hour before the Queen arrived (p10963
- Marit Opland, Norwegian Red Cross)
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