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11th of June 2007

Baghdad School of Pharmacy receives textbooks

The Baghdad School of Pharmacy has received the first shipment of new pharmacy textbooks from Books to Iraq, a small organisation formed by Iraqi and British Pharmacists to help replenish pharmacy educational establishments. Thirty-eight kilograms of books were shipped to Iraq earlier this year and are now being used by students and staff within the School of Pharmacy in Baghdad.

The books included up-to-date works on drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, clinical pharmacy, and other reference works. Over £600 pounds worth of new books were shipped, as well as additional nearly-new donated books.

After twelve years of sanctions access to high quality information sources has been severely disrupted.

Anthony Cox, Chairman of Books to Iraq and staff member at Aston School of Pharmacy, said, "As pharmacy students in the United Kingdom take their examinations, it is good to know that new books are available for their peers in Baghdad for their studies. Iraq has an important place in the history of pharmacy, and we hope that our small contribution helps support Iraqi pharmacists in the future".

Books to Iraq would like to thank Doug Choyce of DHL (Birmingham) for providing cost-price shipping of the books to their destination.

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