Up to 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, the WHO warned on Tuesday, promising long-term assistance.
"Event overview maps show that potentially 23 million people are exposed, including around five million vulnerable populations," the World Health Organization's senior emergencies officer Adelheid Marschang said.
The WHO "considers that the main unmet needs may be in Syria in the immediate and mid-term," Marschang told the WHO's executive committee in Geneva.rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing cold, aftershocks and collapsing buildings,"It is now a race against time," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, explaining that the UN health agency was urgently sending aid to the area.
Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast Turkey-Syria border region—pouring misery on an area already plagued by war, insurgency, refugee crises and a recent cholera outbreak. The situation is particularly dire in northern Syria, which has already been decimated by years of war.
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