Baghdad: The Iraqi Red Crescent Society has mobilised all of its human and mechanical resources to provide emergency and medical assistance to visitors to Imam Hussein’s Arbaeen (peace be upon him).

Engineer Falah Muhammad Redha, Director of the Karbala Branch, stated that a plan has been developed for Imam Hussein’s (peace be upon him) Arbaeen visit to provide emergency and medical services to visitors and mourning processions, as well as mobilisation of all human and mechanical resources.

He added that more than (2000) volunteers and paramedics from Iraqi Red Crescent teams are involved in the plan, which includes first aid, health awareness, stretcher campaigns, missing persons centres, and a cleaning campaign on the roads leading to the holy Karbala with the governorates of Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Wasit, Diwaniyah, Muthanna, Najaf, Babylon, Baghdad, Diyala Salahuddin, and Kirkuk.

Rida stated that “(26) ambulances were deployed in the city centre and on major roads for the purpose of evacuating and transporting emergency cases to hospitals and health centres, in coordination with the city’s health department, with bandage supplies and first aid kits provided to the mobile teams.”.

At the same time, he emphasised the deployment of seven mobile medical clinics staffed by specialised medical personnel and outfitted with cutting-edge medical technologies and medications to provide free care to visitors.