UAE president finances building of six hospitals in Iraq

United Arab Emirates (UAE) President, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan will pay for the building and equipment of six hospitals in Iraq, it was officially announced.

Sheik Zayed also pledged to donate Iraqi hospitals 12 ambulances, anti-fever vaccines and other devises to detect cholera and malaria, UAE foreign minister, Sheik Hamdane Ben Zayed Al-Nahyane, told reporters.

This is an initiative testifying to the interest granted by the country's top authorities to the humanitarian situation in Iraq and their keenness to alleviate Iraqis' sufferings in these hard circumstances entailed by the US-British military operation.

The UAE red crescent has also started contacts with the Arab states' pharmaceutical plants to provide them with medicine and equipment in the coming days, said the head of the UAE diplomacy who is also chairman of the country's red crescent.