Needs continue to rise as more survivors are found
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I wanted to give you an update on the news out of southeast Turkey and northwest Syria, where devastating 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes have cost more than 7,000 people their lives.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have worked through the night in nearly freezing temperatures to ensure access to health care for survivors. We have been in constant contact with local health authorities in both countries to extend support where it is needed most.
Even as we have been shocked and saddened by these devastating earthquakes, MSF is starting to get a clearer picture of the situation on the ground.
As of Tuesday evening, the official estimate is that over 7,000 people have been killed and more than 21,000 have been injured, and this number is expected to rise as the search and rescue operations continue. Tragically, we have learned that one of our staff members is among the dead, and other staff have lost members of their families.
In these moments, we are called on to act. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. MSF has worked in northwest Syria for years, so our teams were already on the ground, able to mobilize an emergency response within minutes of the first earthquake—the most severe in the region in decades.
"[In] the first hours [of the disaster], our teams treated around 200 wounded and received 160 casualties in the facilities and clinics that we run or support in northern Idlib," says Sebastien Gay, MSF head of mission in Syria. "Our ambulances are also deployed to assist [people]."
In the hours that followed, MSF provided immediate support to 23 health facilities across Idlib and Aleppo governorates by donating emergency medical kits and supporting them with medical staff to reinforce their teams. As many homes have been destroyed, MSF is also supporting displaced people in the region with donations of blankets and essential life kits.
As our operations continue in the cold, these are the moments that define us. Your unrestricted support allows MSF teams in Syria and more than 70 other countries to provide care where it is needed most—and they cannot do it alone.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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