Psychosocial help and medical remedy for earthquake survivors proceed throughout the impacted areas and in cities, survivors migrated to almost two months after the pair of highly effective tremors, Minister of Family and Social Services Derya Yanık famous in her interview with Anadolu Agency (AA) Friday.
Pointing out that psychosocial help actions proceed uninterrupted, Yanık highlighted the efforts undertaken by the ministry from the primary day of the catastrophe, explaining the scope of the help offered not solely within the earthquake zone however different provinces the place many survivors have relocated since Feb. 6.
“When we are saying psychosocial help, (we imply) what must be carried out to rebuild our residents’ each day routine and each day life, which was disrupted by the catastrophe … Starting with an evaluation of their wants, firsthand search and rescue, the necessity for shelter within the subsequent course of, heating, meals, clothes, hygiene gadgets … We organized all these processes rapidly,” Yanık mentioned.
”This help is ongoing in each within the tent and container cities within the earthquake zone and within the locations the place our residents have been evacuated from the earthquake space. There are evacuation factors which might be very dense in Istanbul, Ankara, Kocaeli, Antalya and Mersin. We additionally proceed our psychosocial help actions right here,” she underscored.
Psychological help for youngsters
At the identical time, the Family and Social Services Ministry helps younger quake survivors within the capital Ankara keep away from despair.
Deniz Koçak, a psychologist working on the ministry, has been a part of varied actions to help the kids in Ankara’s Kazan and Kızılcahamam districts.
“We have built playgrounds and playgroups for preschool children staying in hotels. We also organized museum and cinema tours as well as shows that children can attend with their families with the contribution of municipalities and some foundations,” Koçak informed AA.
Kocak mentioned that in addition they visited earthquake victims of their new homes. “We conduct individual interviews with children in need of psychological support. We started with psychological first aid and then continued with psychosocial support activities,” she mentioned.
Kocak mentioned a number of examinations have been performed to find out the bodily wants of victims and to make sure coordination and supply.
“Some 90% of the children in Kazan and Kızılcahamam continue their education. They were enrolled in schools in the region. Some children do not want to go to school as they do not want to be separated from their families. We provide them with psychological support and guide them to continue their education,” she mentioned.
“Children’s adaptation to their new schools progressed faster than we thought. The number of children who have problems with absenteeism from school is low. This process has progressed in a much more positive direction as their peers and teachers have embraced them with love,” Kocak added.
Integration into new social surroundings
Nearly 10,000 earthquake victims, together with 600 youngsters, migrated to Ankara’s Çubuk district following February quakes, Burhanettin Çelik, a social service employee on the ministry, informed AA.
“Our social service center in Çubuk district provided psychological support to the children affected by the disaster to help them overcome their trauma,” Çelik mentioned.
Çelik underlined that households who settled in Çubuk had considerations about the best way to clarify the earthquake to their youngsters.
“In the first place, we gave the necessary information to the families about what needs to be done for the children to understand this process correctly. Secondly, the children needed to gradually return to their routine, such as getting up early in the morning and going to school,” Çelik mentioned.
During this course of, the ministry personnel constructed play remedy rooms on the social service middle, mentioned Çelik, including that youngsters have been additionally given image evaluation coaching by their lecturers.
“Some 17 trained personnel visited the houses of more than 6,000 people one by one. During these visits, individuals in need of psychosocial therapy were identified. The majority of them were children,” he mentioned.
These youngsters have been additionally given remedy regularly after the acute part was over, Çelik mentioned. “We organized various entertaining activities and shows, such as puppet making, so that children can get away from their traumatic memories. We also distributed gifts to them,” he mentioned.
For youngsters to proceed their schooling, in addition they contacted their lecturers of their new colleges and made them conscious of the best way to deal with the younger survivors. “We urged them to avoid engaging in behaviors that would remind the children of their disaster-related memories. The teachers then warned the students in their classes about this issue,” he mentioned.
The intention was to determine a social surroundings the place youngsters might proceed their routine and strange lives with none change, in accordance with Çelik.
Treatments offered in quake space
Following the Feb. 6 earthquakes that razed tons of of hundreds of buildings, the infrastructure of the area, together with many hospitals, was broken.
Apart from the handfuls of area hospitals established within the first week after the quake, newly opened hospitals, together with the one constructed with 96 containers, proceed to heal the injuries of the earthquake survivors within the quake-stricken areas.
Kocaeli Hospital, which has been offering remedy to 12,500 earthquake victims since its opening in Hatay, performs an lively function within the fast therapeutic of the injuries.
The hospital, which was constructed by the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality with the help of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSIAD), continues to supply uninterrupted remedy.
Various polyclinic companies are offered in an space of two,000 sq. meters (6,561 sq. ft) within the hospital positioned within the Defne district of Hatay, which was transferred to the Ministry of Health after its institution. The hospital, which serves with a 54-bed capability, was opened on March 6.
Speaking to AA, Dr. Mehmet Karahan, the hospital’s chief doctor, famous that remedy companies in orthopedics, youngsters’s ailments, gynecology and obstetrics have been offered within the hospital. “The bed capacity is good in terms of providing on-site treatment of patients who need inpatient treatment without referral to another center. It is also good in terms of the physician. It enables the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the disease on-site,” he defined.
At the identical time, different hospitals within the area, together with the state Necip Fazıl City Hospital in Kahramanmaraş, proceed to function after the large quake.
According to AA stories obtained from the assistant of the chief doctor within the hospital, Dr. Mustafa Özgül, 625 infants have been born within the Necip Fazıl City Hospital Gynecology and Child Additional Service Building since Feb. 6.
The 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude earthquakes on Feb. 6 struck 11 Turkish provinces – Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, KahramanmaraŞ, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa, claiming greater than 50,000 lives. Over 13.5 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes, in addition to many others in northern Syria.
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