Earthquake in Turkey & Syria: UK medical team waiting for flight to Turkey

• A team of six persons includes surgeons, paramedics, emergency medical personnel, and logistic personnel.
• An earthquake on early Monday jolted southern Turkiye and northwest Syria.
• The earthquake killed 4800 people in sleep.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on early Monday jolted southern Turkiye and northwest Syria, killing over 4800 people in their sleep, leveling buildings, and causing tremors felt as far away as Greenland, news agencies and Al Jazeera reported.

At least  1,651 were killed in rebel and government-controlled parts of Syria, state media and medical sources said whereas 3,381 people died in Turkey

Sou heard from David Wightwick of UK-Med, who is awaiting a flight to Turkey to lead the UK’s medical response team.

According to him, the initial team of six persons includes surgeons, paramedics, emergency medical personnel, and logistics personnel. More NHS employees will most certainly join them, he says Radio 4’s Today program, but it’s critical that they arrive first and asses how they can best assist.

He explains that they don’t want to take up too much room until they know what they can do to help Turkish officials.

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