Iranian Red Crescent opens new healthcare center in Lebanon
Submitted by mohtava on Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:08
The three-story healthcare center is constructed and equipped in a 1,200 square meter land and is inclusive of a physiotherapy hall, a pharmacy, a blood bank, a surgery room, a recovery hall and rooms exclusively for hospitalizing of children among the other medical services facilities in it.
The opening ceremony of the Iranian healthcare center in Baalbek was attended by the Head of the Lebanese Red Crescent Society Susan Oweis, members of a Norwegian Red Cross Society delegation, representatives of the Lebanese Hezbollah and Amal movements and local social and religious authorities.
Zia'ie said in the ceremony that the Iranian Red Crescent Society has established the healthcare center in Baalbek in accordance with pure religious and humanitarian beliefs.
He also appreciated the International Red Cross Society's contributions to the completion of the humanitarian project aimed at easing a part of the pains and sorrows of the Lebanese nation in that part of their country.
Construction of the center began in the year 2011 and its land was allocated by Baalbek Municipality.
Susan Oweis, too, said that the construction of the healthcare center was materializing of one of the dreams that region's people.
She appreciated the Iranian Red Crescent Society for initiating the idea and pursuing it till its completion, ensuring her Iranian counterpart that the Lebanese Red Crescent Society will permanently continue the good job that Iran has started.
Javad Fallah, the representative of the Iranian Red Crescent Society in Lebanon, too, said that the Baalbek Healthcare Center is a gift from the Iranian nation to their brother Lebanese nation and practical interpretation of the seven articles of the international Red Crescent and Red Cross societies' charter.