According to Turkiye’s health minister Fahrettin Koca, more than 22,000 people have died as a result of Monday’s powerful earthquakes.
According to Koca, the devastating earthquakes on Monday resulted in 22,327 fatalities and 80,278 injuries.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca stated to the reporters, “Healthcare services are being supplied without a letup in all of our provinces.”
Koca urged health volunteers not to “go outside of the plans of the Provincial Health Directorate in order to avoid causing chaos,” claiming that there is enough medical staff on the ground.
According to a previous statement from the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), there are currently more than 166,000 search and rescue workers on the ground.
According to AFAD, about 92,700 individuals have been relocated from earthquake-affected areas so far.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake, according to Orhan Tatar of AFAD, produced energy equivalent to 500 atomic bombs.
Tatar also denied reports made on social media that the Goksu district in southern Kahramanmaras had seen volcanic activity in response to the strong earthquakes, claiming that “there is no lava flow, volcanic ash, oil, or gas emission in the region.”
According to our findings, the episode in Goksu is nothing more than a straightforward mass movement brought on by the earthquake, which we frequently observe after tremors, he continued.
More than 13 million people were impacted by the magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, which were centered in the province of Kahramanmaras and also affected Adana, Adyaman, Diyarbakr, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanlurfa.
The powerful tremors that hit Turkiye in a nine-hour period were felt in a number of neighboring nations, including Syria and Lebanon, with Syria’s death toll approaching 3,400.
