TEHRAN -- The head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said Monday the Iranian Army has dispatched another consignment of relief aid to Turkey for people in the quake-stricken regions.

Pirhussein Kolivand, who was speaking to reporters, said the society took steps to send search and rescue teams and necessary equipment and supplies to areas of Turkey and Syria hit by the recent deadly earthquake.

The IRCS head said the Iranian relief and rescue team includes 50 individuals and a number of doctors.

Kolivand added that from the very first day, Iran’s relief teams have managed to rescue people alive from under the rubble by using rescue and search dogs and search devices.

He noted that the search and rescue teams are removing the debris in search of many people from under the rubble to save their lives.

The IRCS has also built field hospitals both in Syria and Turkey, the Iranian official said.

In a telephone conversation with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger on Thursday evening, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to immediately dispatch humanitarian aid convoys and rescue teams to Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib as millions of people are in urgent need of food, shelter and warm clothes.

Meanwhile, the permanent mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations called for the immediate removal of unilateral coercive measures to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.

In a tweet, the mission referred to the UN’s statement of solidarity with the Syrian Arab Republic about the recent earthquake in the country.

“The statement of solidarity with the Syrian Arab Republic on the recent earthquake urges the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of illegal unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) in order to facilitate the delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid,” it said.