BAGHDAD: A delegation from the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), headed by the Society’s Vice President, Anwar Al-Hassawi, discussed with the President of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Yassin Ahmed on Thursday a number of topics most notably the establishment of a health center in the city of Basra, southern Iraq.

Al-Hassawi said in a statement to KUNA that the main goal of the visit is to agree with the Iraqi side to establish and equip a new health center in Basra governorate within the framework of the humanitarian projects adopted by the association to support the Iraqi people. He added that the KRCS will finance the establishment of the center with a portion of the amount it donated to support Iraq at the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq in 2018. Al-Hassawi stated that the visit will also include discussing a number of joint bilateral files, humanitarian projects, and ways to enhance close cooperation between the two societies.

In turn, the President of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society praised the humanitarian support provided by the KRCS to the Iraqi people over the years, noting that the health center under discussion will enhance the cooperation between the two societies and joint funding on land belonging to the Iraqi Red Crescent in the (Umm Al-Broom) area in central Basra.

He said that the Kuwaiti delegation’s visit will also include bilateral discussions to enhance cooperation between the two parties, and field tours to a number of hospitals affiliated with the Iraqi Red Crescent and to a number of mobile clinics previously donated by the KRCS to Iraq. Over the years, the KRCS has organized many humanitarian donation campaigns to support the Iraqi people and has also donated mobile medical clinics, equipment, ambulances, and medical devices. — KUNA