"Save Ship" Loaded With 2500 Metric Tons of Humanitarian Aids Departed to Yemen

Considering the Yemen crisis and its impact on the civilians that have lead to many casualties and injuries and consequently the urgent need for humanitarian aids and services, IRCS relief and medical consignment dispatched to Yemen on 10 May 2015. The consignment consists of tents, blankets, medicine, medical equipment and food items and accompanied by Iranian Red Crescent relief and medical teams and volunteers.

Mr Ahmadi, the Secretary General of Iranian Red Crescent, in an interview said that the ship left Bandar Abbas in Persian Gulf and will proceed to Hudaydah port in Yemen via Red Sea the consignment is sent based on the the coordination made with the Yemen Red Crescent Society and announced to the International Committee of Red Cross.