“We are sending a civil defense force and several tons of medical supplies to Lebanon. Ambulance doctors will go to Beirut as early as possible to help in hospitals, ”he wrote on his Twitter.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazimi also promised to provide assistance to Beirut.
“We decided to send the plane with medical assistance on board,” TASS quotes him.
The representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Inas Hamam told RIA Novosti that trauma and surgical kits were sent to Lebanon to treat the wounded.
On August 4, a powerful explosion occurred in the port area in the capital of Lebanon. The Jordanian Seismological Observatory has determined that the explosion is equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 4.5.