Ricardo Martínez, logistics coordinator of the emergency unit at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), leads one of the first teams that the organization is sending from Spain to Turkey. The team will assess the situation and the humanitarian needs in some of the areas most affected by the earthquake. “The sooner we get in touch with the local authorities, the sooner we will understand what their most acute needs are,” said Martínez. “We will coordinate with them, what is our added value in the intervention.”

Other MSF teams were already present in northern Syria, treating the injured and carrying out distributions of emergency medical kits and relief items since the first hours after the earthquake. Read more at [ Ссылка ]

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