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The teams of the Iraqi Red Crescent are conducting a field survey for the affected families due to rain for a number of governorates.

Many areas in Iraq have witnessed heavy rain which led to floods in the governorates of Salahuddin, Diywania, Basrah, Maysan, and Wasit, the floods have caused damages in the houses and the public properties for the citizens. In Salahuddin, the local authorities have evacuated forcibly 100 families in the villages of Al-Musahak adjacent to Tigers river and shelter them in ...

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Iraqi Red Crescent: Sending relief and food items to the villages and besieged areas due to rain torrents in Maysan.

Responding to the crisis that caused by the floods south of Maysan governorate due to the heavy rain during the last days, The Iraqi Red Cresent Society (IRCS) / Maysan branch has started a distribution campaign of health, relief, and food items for thousands of affected families at AlJadawel village in Sayed Ahmed AlRefae township south of Maymona district.  The above-mentioned campaign ...

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Iraqi Red Crescent distributes relief and food items to more than 250 affected families due to the rain in Basrah.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has distributed relief and food assistance to more than 250 affected families due to the rain in different areas of Basrah governorate. The IRCS has reported in a statement that its teams have distributed food and relief items to more than 250 affected families due to the rain in Al-Fao areas, Abo Al-Khaseeb, Fedaya, and Al-Qarna. The ...

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Iraqi Red Crescent continues its preparations to provide first aid and medical services for visitors in the occasion of Imam Kadhim visit (peace be upon him).

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) / Baghdad branch has completed its preparations to provide first aid and medical services for visitors in the occasion of Imam Kadhim visit (peace be upon him). The IRCS / Baghdad Branch has completed all preparations to provide services to the visitors and installed 25 permanent medical detachments and deployed 70 teams who are spread ...

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Precautionary preparations to face the possible rain torrents in Basrah.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in Basrah has started to form an urgent operations room in order to face the possible rain torrents depending on the meteorological reports that indicate the occurrence of floods and torrents in the border areas during the coming days . An additional urgent teams have been formed from the IRCS’s volunteers For the purpose of ...

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Iraqi Red Crescent: Precautionary preparations to face rain torrents in a number of governorates.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has announced its preparedness to face the expected heavy rain torrents during the next days according to the Iraqi meteorological organization that Iraq has exposed to atmospheric depression. The IRCS has reported in a statement ” The IRCS`s teams have mobilized its staff and volunteers, also preparing the health, psychosocial, relief, and the IRCS `s ...

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The Arab Red Cross and Red Crescent (ARCO) condolences the families of victims of the sinking ferry in Mosul.

The General Secretariat of the Arab Red Cross and Red Crescent Organization mourns the victims of the painful ferry of Mosul, the organization extends its sincere condolences to all the victims’ families.  In a press statement issued after this painful disaster, the organization extended its condolences to the Iraqi government, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) (one of the components of the active ...

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Iraqi Red Crescent: retrieving a number of bodies for the victims of Mosul ferry.

The teams of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) are still searching for the victims of Mosul ferry, that has sunk yesterday in different areas of Nineveh governorate. Since then, the rescue teams of the IRCS have retrieved 21 bodies, including three bodies found today, where the searching is still ongoing,  during the past few hours, the rescue teams were ...

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Dozens of citizens drowned after a river ferry capsized in Mosul and the teams of the Iraqi Red Crescent rescue the wounded.

Dozens of people have drowned on Thursday after a ferry capsized in the tourist island of Mosul. More than 40 people lost their lives most of them are women and children after the ferry sank. Immediately, the Iraqi Red Crescent teams have intervened with 25 volunteers and transported two mobile medical units to the scene, adding to provide first aid ...

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