Baghdad ? The 24 boys found severely malnourished in a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same facility and are being properly cared for, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found the boys last week naked in a dark room, some tied to beds and too weak to stand once they were unbound, the military said.

The director of the girls’ section of the al-Hanan orphanage said the boys had been transferred to her building.

“All necessities, such as food, clothes and medical care, have been provided for them,” said Karima Dawood.

Iraqi officials and the military said the boys had been moved from the coed building last month because it was deemed inappropriate for them to live with girls. They have now been returned to the original living arrangement.

AP Television News footage showed the boys, most of whom apparently are mentally disabled, clothed and sitting in wheelchairs or iron cribs in clean rooms – a stark contrast to the photos shown earlier this week by CBS News that showed many of them lying naked on the floor in filthy conditions. The military said food and clothing were found in a nearby storeroom.

Three women, who claimed to be caretakers, and two men, the orphanage director and a guard, were in the building when the soldiers arrived June 10, according to the military statement.