BEIRUT, Oct 4 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Tuesday paid the education and treatment expenses of a Syrian child who has lost his legs during the war in Syria.
KRCS' head of team in Lebanon Dr. Musaad Al-Enezi stressed to KUNA the society's keenness to help the Syrian boy, Qusay Alloush, and offer health care especially for elderly and children.
KRCS' initiative to pay the expense of the Syrian child was in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Lebanese Red Cross, he added.
In a similar statement to KUNA, Khaleel Alloush, the father of the Syrian child expressed thanks and appreciation to Kuwait and KRCS for their efforts toward his son.
The KRCS has been involved, since the flare-up of the Syrian crisis, in various humanitarian activities to help the Syrian refugees, estimated at 1.5 million. (end) mah.ss