Alwaght- Iranian doctors are in Iraq to assist victims of recent chemical attacks by ISIS Takfiri terrorist group in Northern Province of Kirkuk.
Iran’s Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi has said that the Iranian medical team has been dispatched to Iraq following a request by the Iraqi government for emergency assistance.
He added that Iranian doctors will examine wounded Iraqis and provide them with medicine and emergency medical services in the shortest time.
Iraqi Health Minister Adilah Husayn phoned his Iranian counterpart last Wednesday and requested for emergency medical help to those wounded in ISIS chemical attacks in Kirkuk.
A three-year-old girl lost her life and up to 600 others sustained injuries during chemical attacks by ISIL terrorists near the city of Kirkuk, according to reports.
According to Iraqi security and hospital officials, the latest attack took place early on Saturday in the small town of Taza, which was also struck by a barrage of rockets carrying chemicals three days earlier.
Hundreds of wounded are suffering from infected burns, suffocation and dehydration, said Helmi Hamdi, a nurse at the Taza hospital.
The attacks, which forced hundreds to flee for safety, took place in the city of Kirkuk and the village Taza, according to Iraqi officials.
“What ISIS terrorist gangs did in the city of Taza will not go unpunished. The perpetrators will pay dearly,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.
ISIS terrorist group is believed to have set up a special unit for chemical weapons research made up of Iraqi scientists who worked on weapons programs under Saddam Hussein as well as foreign experts.
Saddam’s regime used chemical weapons against Iran during the 1980-88 imposed war against the Islamic Republic.
Iraq acquired the technology and the materials to develop chemical weapons from the US and a number of Western countries, which not only equipped the Iraqi regime with the tech but also supported it financially.
