ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, syrian doctor's under enormous strength as they raced to provide care for earthquake victims. hospitals are facing shortages of staff and medicine with resources already stretched thin for more than a decade of war. pope's fade in turkey for any more survivors,

emerging from the rubble rescue teams are working tirelessly in the most difficult of circumstances. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. international aid is moving to help with the aftermath of catastrophic earthquakes in syria and turkey. but over a decade of war has left organisations struggling to reach victims in some parts of syria. the government of per sharla thought has said it will allow humanitarian assistance into rebel held areas. international aid has begun. trickling in and the us has suspended some sanctions on syria to help ease access in rebel controlled eb medical resources were already stretched. then now medics are bonding

to a dramatic influx of casualties and having to draw on help wherever they can get it . got these team in syria reports with at the i'll ship a hospital and central ed lib. medical students are quickly finding out what it's like to be a doctor. they've been working nonstop since the earthquake struck several days ago. currently they're treating 200 patients described as in critical condition, more than they would normally be able to handle louder psychiatric via. we have a large number of patients and it exceeds our capacity. in spite of that we are giving it all our effort thought did he, patients have multiple injuries, requiring more than one treatment machine. we need all the support we can get in our hospital, including surgical and medical supplies. that means to demand a hail from the while they wait for reinforcements, they manage as best they can. and that requires harnessing all the resources

available and improvising hardy and lot that will awesome. we've switched all the wards from cardiac care to surgical care month. how. what at the most of the wards have been completely transform was at the smoke amen. the entire staff has been called in for a full week because of the tremendous pressure on the hospital now, not from the, from the nurse. and we also have a shortage of medicine in our stock. lyles, southern m, can milan, edward you live at on more health is on the way to this hospital close to the turkish border. and advanced team from a spanish aid organization is paying the hospital a visit to lay the groundwork. it's hoped though, soon have an emergency hospital up and running to help boost treatment capacity here. one. earlier i spoke to jennifer higgins from the international rescue committee. his organization has been providing aid in syria. she described the situation affecting people there. yes,

thank you very much. for having me on to discuss this, i mean this area syria already before this disaster was incredibly hard to access. the situation really remains dire as a region where 90 percent of population were already reliant on humanitarian assistance. hundreds and people over 40 to remain trapped in the rubble of claps. houses in an earthquake came really at the worst imaginable time when people were in bad asleep. and many of the houses just weren't built to sustain an impact that an earthquake that they saw it could have, you know, community main responders are really fully occupied with the search and rescue. and the huge number of casualties is just overwhelming hospitals and medical center in the northwest. you know, the health system. there was already critically fragile, even before this, and not only from the coven 19 pandemic. but also of until you know, the earthquake, we were working to respond to a very serious corner outbreak. there was 30000 cases just in december. so you can imagine that all still happening in the background of this is being disaster. and

we've already had around 30000 displacement lumens recorded at in 3 days between the 6th and 8th of february. and this is a population that has had to move maybe are in a dozen times over the last decade. air of conflict. you know, those that who hosted by it and, and facing another day and you know, exposed to the, an immense breathing temperatures. we've had reports of floating also and they're just in desperate need for se shelter, electricity, medical aid and sources of heat. thank you so much for sharing with us that how urgent been needed. but since the earthquake has struck on monday morning, we've seen that international, in general, has been reaching syria in particular, slowly at this point 5 days later how much aid is able to get in yeah, it's been really, really hard to estimate this and you know, the one thing that we have to remember is that you know where the main crossing points are, they are, you know, between turkey and northwest furious at the main crossing point,

which the us uses bob on how to move goods between cross border between turkey and northwest area and then high, and this is one of the most effective regions a, you know, interview from the earthquake. so some of the delay in the 1st few days of getting a cross recently because of infrastructure damage to road. and also because the staff that are working in these crossings and they're also impacted by this try to try to be, but i think we do welcome certainly that we've seen some a convoy go across from the u. n over the last 2 days. and we expected to really ramp urgently, and so that we can start to see the necessary assistance get to those communities who need it most. and what exactly needs to happen in order to see more of those, a convoy getting across the border and getting to where that 8 is needed. yeah, i mean, as i said, and as you've said now scaling off of this assistance is, is really of paramount importance. you know, we need to be really seeing a lot more convoys going across a, you know, everything should be,

needs based and really focused on what local organizations are telling us on the ground. you know what dr. they're telling us what local organization they're telling us that they need, you know, since 2020 the u. n. and has only had one border crossing, you know, ain't in northern syria after the other ab us and am, was closed for you and operations many. and you can still use these, you know, for commercial, ruth and, but understanding access has been reading difficult things. then you know, the increasing needs in the northwest really show that we just need to be prioritizing, you know, specific goods to be able to get in. and as you've already highlighted air earlier, before i came on, you know, the health system in particular is really critical. and we need to make sure that we're getting in the necessary medical goods to be able to support a huge report response that's needed. now. thank you so much for joining us today. that's jennifer higgins, the serial policy coordinator at the international rescue committee. appreciate your time. thank you for having me. arrest tours have been battling against the odds in turkey and syria,

but time for saving victims is running out and deaths in the region have now exceeded $24000.00 people. it was an operation. rescuers called a miracle in the southern turkish city of kiera. can we follow the story of a woman named zane ep cruz worked tirelessly to free her from the rubble. zane up sister kept vigil at the site and even went down into the rebel to speak with her dead. i should go even if she is the god is none. i do say after spending more than 100 hours trapped, zainab was pulled out alive. but the elation of her family and rescuers was cut short zainab to come to her injuries the next day in the hospital. d, w spoke to the team behind the operation. they told us they're devastated by zane

eps passing, but are determined to carry on. we would get, we gave her the chance to say goodbye. we gave her brother her sister the chance to say good bye. she didn't die alone in the rubble. and this is a very important part of the job, very important. my team is fully motivated to continue here in turkey, and also during the next mission. turkey has not seen devastation on this scale in decades. kara, man mirage is the turkish city closest to the epi centre parts of it, were flattened in the quake. and after shock, emergency teams and residents are working against the clock to find those still alive. for some hope is waning as hell has been slow to arrive. moisturizer bears, children's version of sir william,

5 of my relatives are still in all women. we haven't heard from them in 5 days. only now have they started to look for them before that they didn't do anything to her to renew her doctor to go. there is no electricity. so i think we slapped in a tenant. going to walk with we slept on the street for 3 days and it's been raining so much. i don't know. so good was in sickness. we have food and water and also heating like but we don't have technical equipment. nothing to cut through the iron balls to break the cement missile. it's just not enough. it is president wretched tie. bear to want address criticism of his government's response to the disaster. acknowledging there had been delays in reaching victim's. critics also accuse them of failing to implement infrastructure reforms. nations from around the world are sending rescue teams and aid to the region. relatives have not given up

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