ANKARA, Feb 24 – A total of 28 countries have set up 31 field hospitals in southern Turkiye after powerful earthquakes shook the region earlier this month, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Friday.
A total of 109,574 tents, 246 living containers, and 1,500 mobile hygiene units have been brought to Turkiye with the coordination of foreign representatives, Anadolu Agency reported, citing a graphic the ministry shared on Twitter.
In-kind aid supplies delivered to the disaster zone include nearly 1.5 million blankets, along with 211,839 sleeping bags, 80,824 beds, 26,622 generators, 5,928 tons of clothing, 3,222 tonnes of hygienic medical supplies, and 5,746 tonnes of food, it added.
More than 42,000 people have been killed in the back-to-back earthquakes that struck on Feb 6, according to the country’s disaster management agency.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centred in Kahramanmaras and struck 10 other provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating tremors.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the earthquakes that struck in the space of fewer than 10 hours.
