Red Crescent to send humanitarian aid to Iraq

Assistance to be made to Iraqi people was discussed in the meeting held between Iraqi health delegation and Red Crescent Deputy Director General Ali Ulvi Bakir on Saturday.

Iraqi Red Crescent President Jamal Al-Karbouli said that nearly 30 thousand refugees needed help and he requested medicine, blankets, stove, clothes for winter and he wanted the patients to be treated in Turkey and students to be educated.

Noting that they needed aid before the winter, Al-Karbouli said that 500 tents would be enough and they needed blankets, stove and clothes more. He wanted the support of Red Crescent in training health personnel.

Bakir said that although Red Crescent went short of its stocks due to recent disasters, they would try to make every kind of assistance.

Noting that they would send tents, blankets, stove, medicine, winter clothes, disinfectant and kitchen equipment for two thousand families in Iraq as a beginning, Bakir said that humanitarian aid equipment would be sent within October.

Bakir said that Red Crescent was ready for the education of Iraqi children and added that they would discuss this issue in detail later.

Bakir said that they could help transfer of Iraqi patients to Turkish hospitals by the consent of the Health Ministry.