Saudi funding for mine clearance in Iraq

The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid provided a financial grant to the government of Iraq in order to finance survey projects and the removal of cluster munitions and mines in a number of Iraqi governorates in order to achieve a safe environment free of mines for the stability and security of Iraqi citizens and improve their livelihood as they practice their work in agriculture and livestock grazing, in addition to supporting… Strengthening the Iraqi economy.

The Iraqi Minister of Environment, Engineer Nizar Maidi, had met with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center team in the capital, Baghdad, in order to receive the financial grant. This support provided by the Center is an implementation of the leadership’s directives to contribute to the removal of mines in the Samawah Desert in Al-Muthanna Governorate by 91%, in addition to a number From the Iraqi governorates.

On the other hand, the Center’s team is following up on health relief projects there to supervise them. The team discussed with the Iraqi Minister of Health, Dr. Saleh Mahdi Al-Hasnawi, a project to support the Republic of Iraq with liquid oxygen and its supplies. The Center delivered 4,500 oxygen cylinders to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, which in turn distributed them to health facilities. In various governorates, in addition to discussing the delivery of sites and completing the pre-installation work for the oxygen tanks expected to arrive in Iraq during the next month and facilitating the work of the implementing company approved by the centre, it also discussed resuming the supply of liquid oxygen to Iraqi health facilities from Saudi Arabia in support of the ministry’s efforts to meet the needs of its citizens and provide its services. for them .

( Arabic)