Published February 18,2023
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Renowned Turkish-American coronary heart surgeon Mehmet Öz on Saturday visited a area hospital of the U.S.-based Samaritan’s Purse humanitarian support group in Türkiye‘s quake-hit Hatay province.
Öz, who was accompanied by cardiovascular surgeon Halit Yerebakan from Istanbul, toured the sector hospital which has 52 beds, a pharmacy and two working rooms.
He spoke with well being professionals relating to the scenario within the province and received details about the operations of the sector hospital.
According to the group, it has 93 catastrophe response specialists on the bottom in Türkiye, with extra touring to the world within the coming days.
The area hospital, which started its operations on Monday, is situated within the car parking zone of a 1,100-bed Hatay Training and Research Hospital, which is not purposeful because of the earthquake.
Samaritan’s Purse docs and nurses handled dozens of sufferers within the first hours of the operation, the help group mentioned.
Earlier, Öz and Yerebakan additionally visited the Mustafa Kemal University Research and Application Hospital and met with hospitalized survivors of the current huge earthquakes.
At least 40,642 individuals have been killed in two highly effective earthquakes that rocked southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, in keeping with the most recent official figures.
The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes, centered within the Kahramanmaraş province, affected greater than 13 million individuals throughout 11 provinces, together with Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, Elazığ and Şanlıurfa.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
