possible for the future hall, a country for the people who are behind the boss gardens of truth starts february 18th on d w. ah, ah ah, this is it'll be a news alive from berlin. syrian doctors under enormous strain 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. also coming up on folks fade in turkey for any more survivors, emerging from the rubble rescue teams are working tirelessly in the most difficult

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 bashar al assad has said it will allow humanitarian assistance and to rebel held areas. international aid has the gun trickling in and the west has suspended some sanctions on syria to help ease access. in rebel controlled it blip medical resources were already stretched thin. now medics are responding to a dramatic influx of casualties and having to draw on help wherever they can get t w's team in syria reports mm. at the shipper hospital and central it 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. so how could it could be if we have a large number of patients and it exceeds our capacity? in spite of that, we are giving it all our effort oddity. patients have multiple injuries requiring more than one treatment. we need all the support we can get in our hospital including surgical and medical supplies in the gym at a he'll be while they wait for reinforcements, they manage as best they can. and that requires harnessing all the resources available and improvising. hardy,

i'm glad that we'll awesome. we've switched all the wards from cardiac care to surgical care month. how. what are the most of the wards have been? completely transform was at this for camden. the entire staff has been called in for a full week because of the tremendous pressure on the hospital, not, not from the continent. and we also have a shortage of medicine and our stock, lyles, under him, can alone and we live at ana. 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 hope 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, who's organisation has been providing aid in syria. she described a dire 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 the population were already reliant on humanitarian assistance. hundreds and people report the remain trapped in the rubble of claps. houses. you notice earthquake came really at the worst imaginable time when people were in bed 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 over 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 if this big 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 stay shelter, electricity, medical aid and sources of heat. thank you so much for sharing with us that how urgent benita is, 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 and 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 the one of the most effective regions a,

you know, in turkey 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 the strategy trying 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 rumble urgently. and so that we can start to see the necessary for students 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 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 doctors are telling us what local organizations are telling

us that they need, you know, since 2020 the u. n. and has only had one border crossing, you know, into northern syria after the other ad barbosa was closed for you and operations. many, and you can still use these, you know, for commercial ruth and but understanding access has been really difficult since then, you know, the increasing needs in the northwest really show that we just need to be prioritizing the know, specific going 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 good to be able to support the 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. rescuers has been battling against the odds in turkey and syria, but time for saving victims is running out. according to turkish president wretched type air to one debts in the region have now exceeded 25000. it was an

operation. rescuers called a miracle in the southern turkish city of kira can. we follow the story of a woman named zane ep cruz worked tirelessly to free her from the rubble. zainab sister kept vigil at the site and even went down into the rebel to speak with her dead. i even know she is. the guy does not know the soon after spending more than 100 hours trapped, zayna was pulled out alive. but the elation of her family and rescuers was cut short zane epps to come to her injuries. the next day in the hospital dw spoke to the team behind the operation. they told us there, 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 missions and 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 aftershock, emergency teams and residents are working against the clock to find those still alive. for some hope is waning as help has been slow to arrive. moisturizer bears, children's village of sir william, 5 of my relatives are still in all women. we haven't heard from them in full that

they didn't do anything to renewal her doctor to go. there is no electricity. so i think we slapped in a tenant. going to walk, went, we slept on the street for 3 days, and it's been raining so much. i don't want to know so good was in sickness we have food and water and also hating what we don't have technical equipment. nothing to cut through the iron balls to break the cement missile. it's just not enough. you to his president, wretch, ab tire, 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 hope on finding survivors as efforts turned towards housing and helping those who have survived the quake. let's bring you up to speed now it's another world news

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