TEHRAN-- The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) is ready to comply with the Iraq Red Crescent Society for building medical facilities in Baghdad.IRCS head Pir-Hossein Kolivand made the proposition in a meeting with his Iraqi equivalent Yassin Abbas on the sidelines of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Disaster Management Advisory Group (DMAG) Annual Meeting in Beirut, Lebanon on November 24, 2022.
The focus of the negotiations was the building of a hospital by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in Baghdad and the arrangement of expert personnel, dental practitioners, and surgical and orthopedic teams by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Mehr reported.The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Disaster Management Advisory Group (DMAG), in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Lebanese Red Cross, organized the DMAG 2022 Annual Meeting.The conference collected DMAG members from 14 MENA National Societies.DMAG is a consultative coordination platform on Disaster Management technical matters in the MENA region.It was created following a consultative meeting hosting the Secretary Generals and Presidents of the MENA Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies in Egypt in October 2012.
The Disaster Management Advisory Group MENA aims to support nationwide societies in exchanging Disaster Management knowledge and experience through various capability structure, knowledge exchange workshops and improving policies and strategies within the DM sector, and increasing coordination and cooperation in between the National Societies in the MENA Region.MG