Russian doctors helped about 850 earthquake victims in Turkey
MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. A team of doctors from Russia’s leading federal hospitals provided medical aid to almost 850 victims of the devastating earthquake in Turkey, Russian Deputy Health Minister Alexey Kuznetsov said.
"A team of 11 doctors from the leading federal hospitals has been sent to Turkey upon instructions from [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. Over their weeklong mission, they treated almost 850 patients, including children," Kuznetsov was quoted as saying on the Russian Health Ministry’s official Telegram channel.
The team of trauma specialists, neurosurgeons, surgeons, pediatric surgeons and anaesthesiologists worked side by side with doctors of the Russian emergencies ministry in a mobile hospital, providing round-the-clock medical aid to quake victims.
"We mostly received patients with moderately severe injuries, for diagnosis and emergency medical aid. Some patients were afraid to go to [the city’s] hospital for fears that [the building] may collapse. Others came because they had a high opinion of Russian healthcare," a Russian doctor, Yaroslav Latyshev, was quoted as saying.
On Tuesday, Russian doctors completed their humanitarian mission and are now on their way home.
Two powerful 7.7-magnitude and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes rocked Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, located in the country’s southeast, on February 6. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in ten provinces as well as in neighboring countries, including Syria. In Turkey, the quakes claimed more than 32,000 lives and more than 105,000 people were injured.
