The Red Crescent teams started offering free therapeutic medical services through mobile medical clinics to residents in the Al-Alef Dar area, the Al-Rahma neighbourhood area, and the displaced persons camp west of the Maysan Governorate centre in order to pay attention to the areas that are most in need and to ensure that citizens in various places in the governorate have access to medical services.

In addition to providing free medical consultations and drug treatment services, the mobile medical clinics staff members include physicians, chemists, nurses, and providers of medical and pharmaceutical supplies. They also aim to raise public awareness of community health issues.

The director of the Maysan branch, Haider Hussein, said that the mobile clinic has so far provided medical consultations to (188) people, including approximately (91) pediatric consultations. Noting that the Iraqi Red Crescent’s program continues to provide medical services to citizens living in remote areas far from the governorate center in light of the difficult economic circumstances of the citizens.

Mr. Haider stated that the mobile clinics offer free disease-related counselling services, perform medical examinations, measure blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, and height, and refer certain cases that need specialised care to health centres.

This programme fits with the Iraqi Red Crescent’s desire to detect and cure the medical conditions that are common among the populace as well as lessen their suffering due to the lack of access to healthcare in rural areas.