New details on cases of poisoning in Al-Khazer camp: the death of a child, a woman and food for a Qa

New details on cases of poisoning in Al-Khazer camp: the death of a child, a woman and food for a Qatari organization

NINEWA, June 13 (Xinhua) - The Ministry of Health announced the death of a child and a woman in cases of poisoning caused by the displaced people of Al-Khazer refugee camp, noting that the number of injured was 750, while the World Organization for Human Rights accused one of the Qatari organizations of providing expired food To the displaced people living in the camp, the Chairman of the Committee of the Displaced Representatives announced the formation of an investigative committee in the incident.
The Ministry said in a statement that "the number of cases of food poisoning that occurred, on Monday evening, in Al-Khazer camp after breakfast was 750 injured," indicating that "was transferred up to 100 injured to the hospitals of Arbil and the rest were treated on site by the health staff of Nineveh In coordination with the Erbil medical. "
"The Ministry of Health," the provision of ambulances and the opening of health stores in Nineveh to equip medicines and necessary supplies, "explaining that" the number of deaths are two children and women who have been evacuated. "
"Ninewa health officials are in the camp with medical and health personnel," the ministry said.
This comes at a time accused the World Organization for Human Rights, a national organization to provide expired food to the displaced residents of the camp, causing hundreds of cases of poisoning.
"300 people displaced from Mosul were poisoned in Al-Khaz camp because of the consumption of expired Qatari food," said Khaled Waly, head of the organization.
For his part, the MP for the province of Nineveh Zahid al-Khattouni said in an interview that "800 to 900 people were exposed to poisoning in the camp of Al-Khazer," noting that "cases of poisoning controlled by the health of Arbil, which has mobilized the entire cadres."
For his part, the head of the Committee on Migration and Displaced Parliamentary Raad Dahlaki, a delegation of the Committee and the Ministry of Immigration to the camp of Khazar in Nineveh province, to investigate cases of poisoning.
Al-Dahlaki said in an interview that "information reached us that there is a poisoning case for the displaced people of Al-Khazer camp in Nineveh Governorate after eating expired food baskets according to preliminary information provided to them by an aid organization." He pointed out that " Its way to the camp to uncover the facts and know the circumstances of what happened. "
"The delegation will announce the details of the incident once the investigations are completed and the circumstances of what happened," Dahlaki said.
The Khazar camp, located 30 kilometers east of Mosul, is one of four camps set up by the United Nations in cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq and a number of humanitarian organizations to shelter displaced people fleeing their residential areas since the start of the military campaign to restore the city of Mosul, Finished


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