The World Health Organization is shipping teams medical supplies to the disaster struck areas in Turkey and Syria by earthquake. Teams of medical professionals and flights have been deployed to carry out the task.
Around three flights will be sent with medical supplies, one of them is en route to Istanbul, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned in a media briefing on Wednesday.
“The health needs are tremendous,” averred Dr Iman Shankiti, the WHO representative for Syria.
The consolidated death toll in the two countries is at a troublesome range of 11,000 people. WHO officials have indicated that the toll might ramp up to 20,000 deaths after the disaster took place.
Shankiti mentioned that thousands on the other hand were injured, moreover the Syrian healthcare system have been worn out after handling years of war. In Turkey, WHO representative Batyr Berdyklychev added that over 53,000 people were injured as an aftermath of the incumbent disaster.
The WHO incident manager for the earthquake, Rob Holden, mentioned that people are seeking for support in terms of “basics of life”, like clean water and shelter.
“We are in real danger of seeing a secondary disaster which may cause harm to more people than the initial disaster if we don’t move with the same intention and intensity as we are doing on the search and rescue side,” he averred.
