Brazil sends medicine to assist earthquake victims in Iran

31/12/2003 - 15h47

Brasília, January 2, 2004 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - On Wednesday (31), the Brazilian government sent remedies to Iran to assist victims of the earthquake that devastated the city of Bam on December 26.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the shipment contains a ton of medicines, including analgesics, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, antithermics, and antianemia drugs, used to treat traumatic injuries, inflammations, general infections, respiratory ailments, and other diseases that commonly arise in the wake of major natural disasters. The estimate is for 70,000 people to be treated over the course of three months.

The drugs are being transported free of cost by Varig and Tam airplanes to Paris, from which they will proceed to Teheran on an Iran Air plane. The medications were donated by the Ministry of Health and were manufactured at the pharmaceutical laboratory of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro. (DAS)