Türkiye
Doctors: Earthquake region inadequately prepared for winter
A tent city for earthquake survivors in Antakya city center has been set up. photo
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According to experts, 160,000 people in the Turkish earthquake zone will be housed in containers and around a million people in tents or other improvised accommodation – and winter is approaching.
The Turkish Medical Association has given the floods in the of the Regions affected by earthquake in February urged to make better preparations for winter.
Recent storms in the Hatay region have shown that people are by no means prepared for winter, said the regional chairman of the association, Sevdar Yilmaz, to the German Press Agency. In Hatay, 160,000 people are housed in containers and around a million people in tents or other improvised accommodation.
Pictures from the province showed, among other things, flooded containers and tents. The water was also several centimeters high in the hospital in the city of Antakya after heavy rain. According to Yilmaz, one person died from electrocution from open cables. All of this was avoidable, says Yilmaz.
On February 6th, devastating earthquakes hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria. More than 50,000 people died. Numerous people still live in emergency accommodation.