Official stresses Iranian Red Crescent\'s high capability in rescue

Iran\'s Red Crescent Society enjoys high capability in conducting relief and rescue missions in disaster-hit regions, a senior Red Crescent official underscored. Addressing a ceremony at the beginning of a training course for 10,000 relief and rescue forces in Iran\'s Central city of Arak on Thursday, Secretary-General of Iranian Red Crescent Society Mohammad Abbasi said here Thursday that capabilities of Iran\'s Red Crescent Society are \"unique\" in the world. Abbasi noted that humanitarian concerns are the only matter that the RCS has in mind, and stated, \"The duty of the Red Crescent Society is rushing to assist the disaster-hit individual regardless of sex, race, religion and ethnicity concerns.\" He was quoted by the Islamic republic news agency as saying that his society\'s forces have managed to decrease the time for attending the disaster hit regions and are constantly trying to increase the quality and quantity of their offered services to victims. Last August, Bolivia\'s Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said Iranian Red Crescent\'s medical aids and activities in the Latin American state have been highly beneficial to his country\'s people, and added that such services boost solidarity among the two nations. Iran\'s Red Crescent has 29 medical centers in different countries of the world and it has inaugurated two new medical centers in Bolivia and Tanzania last June.