MSF Responds Immediately After Earthquake Hits Syria and Turkey

When the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey (officially renamed Türkiye) and northwestern Syria on February 6, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), already present in Syria, was able to respond right away. In the first hours, MSF teams treated 200 injured people in Idlib province. Today, “MSF is supporting at least eight hospitals,” says Michel Lacharité, head of MSF’s emergency desk, “and we have a burn unit in Atme City and some medical staff from this hospital were detached to other hospitals which perform trauma surgery.” We are scaling up our response to meet the needs of people displaced by the earthquake in Syria, along with the International Blue Crescent. Read more at https://bit.ly/3jFMogk

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