AhlulBayt News Agency - The Acting Director General of Health in Nineveh Province has said that the ISIS is smuggling medicine from the neighbouring countries.
Ahmed Nazim, the acting director general, said that the Iraqi government is certainly not sending medical supplies to the areas under the control of IS, especially Mosul, “but the terrorist group is smuggling medical supplies from Turkey, Syria and Jordan.”
He also revealed that, based on the information obtained by the Iraqi government, IS asks for extraordinarily high prices in return for the health services it provides to the public. People simply cannot afford medical surgeries, laboratory tests and checkups, the Iraqi official said.
Nazim urged the international community to dry up the sources that provide medical supplies to IS, so the group is not any longer able to use them as a financial sources to wage its war.
The extremist group has so far executed a large number of medical doctors and healthcare staff across its held territories, but there is no exact figure of how many victims, he said.
“However, those physicians who have so far survived, are living in a harsh situation in Mosul as they are obliged to work for extremely low salaries.”
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