"Compared with China, Iraq really lacks sufficient anti-epidemic materials, medical equipment and instruments," Chen said.

Chen is helping local hospitals build laboratories, use CT scanners and related medical equipment and instruments to screen suspected patients and is giving training lectures to local medical staff.

Xu is holding discussions and exchanges with local medical personnel to teach them how to avoid being infected with the coronavirus by their patients.

"That is very important－preventing medical workers from becoming infected themselves while fighting the pandemic," Xu said.

The Iraqi people have been very welcoming to Chinese medical experts, he added.

Chen and Xu have visited several hospitals in different provinces of Iraq in recent weeks, both for discussions and exchanges and to see patients.

They are two of the seven Chinese medical experts who came from Guangdong province to assist Iraq.