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with food, shelter and medical aid in a network of quarantine/reception and transit centres located in the Eastern provinces and in major cities. Numerous spontaneously settled refugees near the border also receive food rations. CAR facilitates the refugees' search for employment and local settlement and provides them with identity cards which entitle them to subsidised food rations. A particular problem has been the poor health condition of Afghan refugees which has resulted in the spread of contagious diseases, in particular malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy. Major efforts at disease control are presently being undertaken by the Government.
6.4.5 UNHCR's programme in the Islamic Republic of Iran started in 1983 with the primary aim of supporting the major relief programme implemented by the CAR. Material inputs for this purpose have included supplies and equipment for the 14 quarantine and reception centres, in particular vehicles, medicines, construction equipment, household items and supplementary food.
6.4.6 Other assistance provided by UNHCR has included the supply of blankets and essential goods to needy refugees who have settled spontaneously in both urban and rural areas. Materials for road construction and agricultural machinery were also delivered to assist the authorities in building access roads and developing agricultural activities in the rural areas of Shamsabad and Pahlavaz in the Birjand Region of Khorasan Province, each with refugee populations of some 20,000, and in Ahangaran/Bardud, east of Qaen in the same Province, where about 40,000 refugees now live.
6.4. 7 Assistance in the health sector has been provided in support of governmental programmes for the control of communicable diseases, mother-and-child health care and the expansion of health services in areas of dense refugee population. In each case, substantial supplies of medicine and equipment were procured abroad and imported into the country.
6.4. 8 Additional assistance, financed through Trust Funds, has included the supply of rice and wheat made available by a donor government and by the EEC. A donor governmental agency has also provided logistical support for the clearance, handling and transport of goods procured under the programme.
6.4.9 Other assistance provided by UNHCR has supported the implementation of a modest resettlement programme for the purpose of family reunification, which benefits individual refugees of various origins. Those resettled included a small number of handicapped refugees under the "Ten-or-More-Plan".
Outline of programmes in the current year and proposals for 1987 6.4.10 Assistance continues to be provided to the seven transit centres and 14 quarantine/reception centres, of which six are now fully operational; eight others should come into operation in the course of the year. Support to the health sector includes assistance towards the construction of 18 prefabricated clinics, mainly located in the Provinces of Khorasan and Sistan-Baluchistan, the equipment of a special refugee hospital in Mashad and the expansion of the leprosarium near Mashad, the patients of which are mostly Afghans.
6.4.11 Current programmes also provide for longer-term solutions with particular emphasis on vocational training and rural settlement. In order to overcome some delays which have occurred in formulating and implementing these
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