Italy sends new rescue team to Turkiye after earthquake

Italy sends new rescue team to Turkiye after earthquake

According to a statement published on the official website of the Italian National Fire Service, this shipment continues the aid that began on February 6, a few hours after the earthquake, when the first group of Italian rescuers arrived in that country – in rotating eights for six days -Expose hour shifts.

The second group, which moved to Turkey’s Hatay province on February 12, was fired from that city’s airport last Saturday by hundreds of people who thanked them for their help.

On behalf of the United Nations, Italian firefighters have been coordinating all other countries’ search and rescue (USAR) units operating in the Antioquia area since February 6, the source said.

Among the main results it is worth highlighting that on February 8, the Italian experts managed to save two children from the rubble of two collapsed buildings, but they also extracted dozens of lifeless bodies in “a difficult situation from the point of view of operational and also emotional ‘ underlines the document.

They also participated in the identification and recovery of a missing Italian man in the city of Kahramanmaraş and helped set up the field hospital in Antioch, which was made available by the Piedmont region to support local structures, the report added.

With support from Italy, a Type 2 Emergency Medical Team (EMT2) from that country began its services on the morning of February 18 around a sports facility near a hospital in the Turkish city of Antioch that was destroyed by the earthquake that killed caused by at least 45,000 people in Turkiye and Syria.

Luigi Icardi, Regional Health Advisor for Piedmont who is coordinating this aid, pointed out that “our doctors and volunteers found themselves in a catastrophic situation when they arrived in this area. The population is exhausted.”

That field hospital is made up of 76 people, including surgeons, emergency and infectious disease physicians, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, gynecologists, physical therapists, as well as 31 nurses, two radiology technicians and two laboratory technicians, Icardi said.

It was also revealed that an Italian ship arrived at the port of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, this weekend loaded with European Union aid for the victims of the Syrian earthquake.

The Italian chargé d’affaires in Lebanon, Massimiliano Dantono, informed that the shipment will be transferred by land to Syrian territory and will be delivered in the next few hours to the Arab Red Crescent of that country, where four doctors have already been staying since February 11 of that European nation .

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