Baghdad – WAA
Minister of Health Saleh Al-Hasnawi confirmed today, Monday, that the ministry’s plan for the Ashura visit included 4 preventive axes and a fifth one related to health services. While explaining its details, he confirmed the participation of 100 teams in implementing it with various duties.
Al-Hasnawi said in his interview with Al-Iraqiya News, which was followed by the (INA): “The ministry’s plan includes multiple axes, the first of which is preventive through 35 monitoring teams that monitor food and liquids such as water and juices that are provided to visitors and take samples for examination, and the second is awareness-raising through 30 mobile teams that play an awareness role by distributing leaflets to visitors as well as owners of Husseini processions to preserve everyone’s health.”
He added, “The third axis is implemented through 35 mobile rapid response teams that provide services to health cases, especially emergency cases.”
He continued, “As for the level of health services, all health institutions in the holy Karbala Governorate, whether affiliated with the Ministry of Health or the private sector, are all in a state of complete non-mobilization through medical, health and nursing cadres around the clock, supported by health cadres coming from neighboring governorates.”
He pointed out that “100 ambulances and 10 reserves were provided and deployed in various areas and roads of the city based on a clear and precise plan.”
Al-Hasnawi said, “The plan was also supported by a special axis for health center services, whether affiliated with the Ministry of Health or the holy shrines, including immediate aid centers with a capacity of 70 beds or more and detachments through medical teams affiliated with those centers that provide services to visitors.”
The Minister of Health pointed out that “the plan began on the first of Muharram and will continue until the eleventh of it, reaching its peak on the night of the ninth to the tenth of it.”