It was very easy to send human resources, the materials and medication in there. It was easy to communicate with the government. Most of those interventions were very fluid. I was in Pakistan in 2005, in Haiti in 2010, in Sichuan in China in 2008. I have been in several post-earthquake crises. What are the biggest challenges right now in the areas of northwest Syria hit by the quake? The conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Terzian about trying to provide aid to Syria's earthquake survivors. He rushed to Turkey and is now the coordinator of relief operations for the medical charity in northwest Syria. Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders) physician Mego Terzian was in Somalia when the quake struck. ![]() Most of the population wasn't getting enough to eat and close to half of the residents were living in camps for internally displaced persons. estimates that of the 4.5 million people living in the region in Syria, 4.1 million people were already in need of humanitarian assistance. ![]() This, in a part of the country that has been wracked by civil war for more than a decade.Įven before the earth shook on February 6, the U.N. The vast majority of the victims were in Turkey, but disaster also wreaked havoc in a part of Syria that is already mired in a protracted humanitarian crisis.Īccording to the United Nations, the quake and a series of powerful aftershocks claimed more than 4,500 lives in northwest Syria, injured thousands more and destroyed at least 10,000 buildings. The February 6 earthquake that was centered in south-central Turkey killed more than 50,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
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