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The health aid organization action medeor is supporting its Turkish and Syrian partner organizations, which have been providing people in the destroyed cities with food, tents, blankets and emergency shelters since the early hours of yesterday morning. Medical care for the many injured people has also started, but is a major challenge for the aid workers. "Our partners tell us that many hospitals were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake, meaning that the remaining clinics are currently completely overloaded," Sid Peruvemba, spokesman for the board of action medeor,explains. "There is a lack of beds, equipment and medicines."

In Syria in particular, the situation is still unclear. "Our partners are working in the Idlib region in northwestern Syria, where there is no state-organized reporting system. However, we know that several hospitals have been destroyed and that patients and injured people are now receiving makeshift care," Peruvemba says. "We have to help as quickly as possible." A fact-finding team from action medeor is therefore already on its way to the crisis region to find out about the specific needs and possibilities on the ground.

Just yesterday, a few hours after the earthquake, action medeor decided to provide 100,000 euros in emergency aid. The aid is to reach the people in various ways, as Peruvemba explains: "Firstly, by supporting our local partner organizations. Secondly, by procuring medical supplies locally. As we have been active in the earthquake region for years, we are very well networked there and know many pharmaceutical wholesalers that we have contacted in the meantime." According to Peruvemba, the third route will be the delivery of relief supplies from Germany, but in this case at a later stage. "In this way, we are not placing an additional burden on the extremely strained logistics chains in the crisis area, but are using them at a time when new disaster logistics chains have been established."

If you would like to support the work of action medeor, you can make a donation. If you donate online at www.medeor.de/spenden, you can also leave your address for a donation receipt. The classic way is via IBAN DE78320500000000009993 at Sparkasse Krefeld, donation keyword: "Earthquake Syria and Turkey".

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