WHO activates emergency medical teams in Turkey and Syria

Dr. Mazen Kewara, Turkey director of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), spoke dwell on CNN from close to the earthquake’s epicenter in Gaziantep, the place he and his household had been taking shelter of their automobile.

Kewara stated that their automobile was the most secure place for them to be at current.

“We can’t use the buildings anymore. Perhaps for hours. Perhaps till tomorrow. I don’t know.”

Turkey continues to be struck by aftershocks – some almost as robust because the preliminary earthquake – that means it isn’t protected to be inside.

“Subsequent to my constructing, about 200-300 meters, there’s a collapsed constructing. There are numerous buildings which have collapsed in Gaziantep,” stated Kewara.

SAMS is a medical reduction group, working in Syria and neighboring international locations. However their efforts to offer help will probably be hampered by the injury to buildings.

“We now have 4 of our hospitals broken severely by the earthquake. We now have evacuated two of them,” stated Kewara, who’s initially from Damascus, Syria.

The continued aftershocks will make it “very, very, very difficult for us as a humanitarian group to have the ability to reply” to these in want.

For now, Kewara and 5 others stay sheltered in his automobile, ready for the tremors to cease.