QRCS volunteer medical team begins surgeries in quake-hit Syria

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The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) announced today, February 12, that its volunteer medical team has started surgical operations for earthquake victims and landslide survivors, six days after a pair of earthquakes devastated northern Syria and southeast Turkiye. 

Rescuers are scouring debris in a desperate search for survivors with a number of victims still being pulled from the rubble.

QRCS earlier said that it will deploy specialist medical professionals from Doha to northern Syria, in order to provide EMS to the victims and support hospitals and health centers in the specialties of general surgery, emergency medicine, orthopedics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, anesthesia, and mental health.

Meanwhile, trucks loaded with in-kind and urgent relief necessaries from the donations of the people of Qatar had earlier head to the airport for shipping and delivery to the quake-affected areas in northern Syria.

QRCS has recently allocated $1 million for initial relief operations in Turkiye and Syria. This is following the 4,800 food parcels from its mission’s stock that were urgently distributed to the affected families in northern Syria. A $10 million fundraising humanitarian campaign was also launched to expand the relief operation in health care, shelter, water and sanitation, and food. Click here to support the QRCS campaign.

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