KUWAIT CITY, April 13: Kuwait sent on Friday night the first aircraft with humanitarian aid to Baghdad and has said that it would continue to send the relief goods in order to help the Iraqi people.

The humanitarian aid from government of Kuwait and The International Red Crescent Society contained five tons of medical equipments, medicines and other relief goods.

Kuwait’s health minister Ahmad Al Jarallah, who was supervising the supplies being loaded at Kuwait airport told journalists that more medical aid and food items would be sent to help the Iraqi people who are suffering from severe shortage of medicines and food items.

He said the reason to send this aid to Baghdad was that many hospitals in Baghdad lack medicines and equipment, adding that Kuwait was ready to send medical supplies to all cities of Iraq.

Kuwait health ministry had also earlier sent 12 trucks loaded with 20 tons of medicines and other equipments to the medical centres in the Iraqi towns of Umm Qasr, Safwan and Al Zubeir. It has also started receiving the Iraqi wounded who are getting treatment at various Kuwaiti hospitals.