“Damage mapping is one way to understand where we need to focus our attention,” WHO said.
Geneva:
Senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday that the need for humanitarian aid is greatest after a major earthquake in Syria and southern Turkey killed thousands.
The WHO’s senior emergencies official, Adelheid Marschang, said Turkey has a strong capacity to respond to the crisis, but the main need in the immediate and medium term will be across the border in Syria, which has already been grappling with a humanitarian crisis for years. Civil war and cholera outbreak.
“This is a crisis on top of many crises in the affected region as stated at the organization’s board meeting in Geneva,” she said.
“Across Syria, needs are at their highest after nearly 12 years of a long, complex crisis, while humanitarian aid continues to fall short.”
She said that some 23 million people, including 1.4 million children, were likely to be exposed, both senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday, adding that Syria’s humanitarian needs were greatest, following a major earthquake there and southern Turkey. Thousands of people were killed in
The WHO’s senior emergencies official, Adelheid Marschang, said Turkey has a strong capacity to respond to the crisis, but the main need in the immediate and medium term will be across the border in Syria, which has already been grappling with a humanitarian crisis for years. Civil war and cholera outbreak.
“This is a crisis on top of many crises in the affected region as stated at the organization’s board meeting in Geneva,” she said.
“Across Syria, needs are at their highest after nearly 12 years of a long, complex crisis, while humanitarian aid continues to fall short.”
She said that about 23 million people, including 1.4 million children, were likely to be exposed in both countries after the earthquake and aftershocks, which reduced thousands of buildings to rubble.
The WHO said it was sending emergency supplies including trauma and emergency surgical kits and activating a network of emergency medical teams.
“It is now a race against time,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors diminish.
He said the WHO is particularly concerned about areas in Turkey and Syria where no information has been released since Monday’s quake.
“Damage mapping is one way of understanding where we need to focus our attention,” he said. countries after the earthquake and aftershocks that reduced thousands of buildings to rubble.
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