EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
Aid IS coming in from around the world.
UK charities have teamed up with corporate giants to send more than £350,000 worth of emergency supplies to Turkey following the devastating earthquake. The emergency aircraft departed from London Heathrow for Adana on Tuesday, carrying clothes, blankets and almost a tonne of infant milk powder. Watford-based humanitarian aid charity Goods for Good worked with partners Magen David Adom UK and the Humanitarian Resources International Foundation to secure an aircraft from Virgin Atlantic. The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart on February 6 in south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria has passed 35,000. Despite the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) appeal reaching £74 million in donations, doctors have said more trauma kits, antibiotics and pain relief are desperately needed to treat those with crush injuries.
Although charities are beginning to receive the green light to get goods out to Turkey, surgeons say they need supplies such as orthopaedic screws and nails, anaesthetics and analgesics. The DEC said there is also a shortage of skilled medical professionals trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery, neurosurgery and hand surgery, and kidney injuries have created a spike in need for dialysis machines and kidney specialists. While the World is paying critical attention to the Victims of the earth quake,we sympathize with them but then the world should remember Ambazonians as well.
