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Kuwait will send the first group of medical personnel to Iraq to help alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people inflicted by the US-led war, a health official said Saturday.
The medical group will leave for the Iraq's southern port city of Umm Qasr on Sunday, Dr. Ahmed al-Shatti of the Health Ministry told Kuwait News Agency.
The group consists of Kuwaiti consultants in the fields of gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics and surgeon, he said, adding that a mobile dental laboratory will accompany the Kuwaiti doctors.
Kuwait on Friday sent the first batch of medical aid to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in response to an urgent request by Iraqi hospitals. The oil-rich Gulf emirate has promised to provide more medical aid to other Iraqi areas.
The ongoing war on Iraq launched by the US-led coalition on March 20 has caused heavy civilian casualties in Iraq, where hospitals are overwhelmed with wounded people who are in need of urgent treatment.
(Xinhua News Agency April 13, 2003)
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