Turkey News Today- Many structures have survived unscathed, and amenities like toilets and showers have all but dissolved since the first earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. movable cabin lavatories have begun to spring up across the earthquake zone, but demand far outstrips force
Antakya: Sedef’s relief at surviving Turkey’s deadly earthquake is snappily giving way to fears she could succumb to conditions that hang to take hold across shattered regions now devoid of basics including toilets.
a Last week’s tragedy killed nearly,000 people across swathes of southeast Turkey and northwest Syria, getting the area’s deadliest natural disaster in centuries.
Erasing entire municipalities, it displaced millions of people and left millions more who stayed behind living in debris, huddling around backfires in the freezing rainfall and facing dearth of medicine. Few structures have survived unscathed, and amenities similar epicenter to toilets and showers all but dissolved when the first earthquake struck before dawn on 6 February.
“ There are no toilets, ” said Husne Duz, a 53- time-old woman from Kahramanmaras, a megacity near the original earthquake’s epicentre.
“ People are urinating near the canopies. We need toilets. We need to be suitable to take a shower. We need washing machines for clothes. ”
Sedef, an 18- time-old in Antakya — an ancient megacity of nearly,000 people, entire blocks of which were razed to the ground — said the lack of sanitation was getting hopeless.
“Perhaps we didn’t die from the earthquake, but we will clearly die from conditions, ” she told AFP, declining to give her family name.
‘ Our biggest issue ’
movable cabin lavatories have begun to spring up across the earthquake zone, but demand far outstrips force.
“ That's our biggest issue, ” said Nurhan Turunc, 42, who was picking up drugs for cousins at a temporary drugstore set up by levies in Antakya.
“ Early morning, we manage, but( the toilets) are really bad, they're in a disastrous state. There's no water. ”
One set of 15 movable blue and white WCs on the ground in central Antakya was fully overwhelmed by use, with dirt overflowing onto the pavement.
Sedef said she had been forced to use the unprintable installations because those in the surviving academy where she had sought retreat were worse.
A plea written on one movable bathroom in the megacity supplicated callers to “ please use as a mortal ”, to encourage proper bathroom form.
Sedat Akozcan, who heads the region’s chamber of druggists, said that where “ hygiene conditions are bad, of course, there will be contagious conditions ”. ‘ A lot of conditions ’
“ But from the drug requests coming up until now, that threat of contagious conditions has not materialized ”
Operating out of an auto demesne of a destroyed public health structure, a group of youthful levies has been allocating free treatment and advice to Antakya’s survivors.
Their thing is to keep the health and sanitation situation manageable until further government help and transnational philanthropic relief arrives.
There are further than a dozen analogous temporary drugstore setups across the affected region, with some 30 druggists on point at each one.
The service said it had seen further than,000 cases a day in Antakya who had been unfit to visit their usual dispensary since last week’s earthquake.
“ A lot of people then are senior, who didn’t want to leave, ” said Doctor Onur Karahanci of the Turkish Medical Association.
“They have a lot of conditions, especially hypertension and psychiatric conditions, diabetes that's veritably wide, ” he said alongside his organization’s mini field clinic in a seaside demesne dotted with displaced people.
‘ veritably cold ’
Akozcan, the druggists ’ representative, advised that conditions in Antakya, where temperatures drop to zero degrees Celsius( 32 degrees Fahrenheit) at night, were also causing issues for babies.
“ The downtime is veritably cold and so there has started to be a lot of upper respiratory infections, especially with small children, ” he said.
At the improvisational drugstore, a child collected a box of capsules and was called back by a druggist to be given a fresh tube of cream and pointers on its use.
Croakers have advised about the pitfalls of skin conditions similar to honey-resistant scabies spreading because of the poor aseptic conditions.
Hundreds of druggists across Turkey have bestowed boxes of capsules, tapes, and other medical rudiments.
There's also high demand for masks to help combat the pervasive shadows of dust thrown up by the collapse of hundreds of structures.
They also shield wear and tear from the smell of decaying bodies as well as asbestos, a honey- resistant material formerly extensively used in construction but now seen as largely dangerous because its fibers can beget cancer when gobbled.
Erasing entire municipalities, it displaced millions of people and left millions more who stayed behind living in debris, huddling around backfires in the freezing rainfall and facing dearth of medicine. Few structures have survived unscathed, and amenities similar epicenter to toilets and showers all but dissolved when the first earthquake struck before dawn on 6 February.
“ There are no toilets, ” said Husne Duz, a 53- time-old woman from Kahramanmaras, a megacity near the original earthquake’s epicentre.
“ People are urinating near the canopies. We need toilets. We need to be suitable to take a shower. We need washing machines for clothes. ”
Sedef, an 18- time-old in Antakya — an ancient megacity of nearly,000 people, entire blocks of which were razed to the ground — said the lack of sanitation was getting hopeless.
“Perhaps we didn’t die from the earthquake, but we will clearly die from conditions, ” she told AFP, declining to give her family name.
‘ Our biggest issue ’
movable cabin lavatories have begun to spring up across the earthquake zone, but demand far outstrips force.
“ That's our biggest issue, ” said Nurhan Turunc, 42, who was picking up drugs for cousins at a temporary drugstore set up by levies in Antakya.
“ Early morning, we manage, but( the toilets) are really bad, they're in a disastrous state. There's no water. ”
One set of 15 movable blue and white WCs on the ground in central Antakya was fully overwhelmed by use, with dirt overflowing onto the pavement.
Sedef said she had been forced to use the unprintable installations because those in the surviving academy where she had sought retreat were worse.
A plea written on one movable bathroom in the megacity supplicated callers to “ please use as a mortal ”, to encourage proper bathroom form.
Sedat Akozcan, who heads the region’s chamber of druggists, said that where “ hygiene conditions are bad, of course, there will be contagious conditions ”. ‘ A lot of conditions ’
“ But from the drug requests coming up until now, that threat of contagious conditions has not materialized ”
Operating out of an auto demesne of a destroyed public health structure, a group of youthful levies has been allocating free treatment and advice to Antakya’s survivors.
Their thing is to keep the health and sanitation situation manageable until further government help and transnational philanthropic relief arrives.
There are further than a dozen analogous temporary drugstore setups across the affected region, with some 30 druggists on point at each one.
The service said it had seen further than,000 cases a day in Antakya who had been unfit to visit their usual dispensary since last week’s earthquake.
“ A lot of people then are senior, who didn’t want to leave, ” said Doctor Onur Karahanci of the Turkish Medical Association.
“They have a lot of conditions, especially hypertension and psychiatric conditions, diabetes that's veritably wide, ” he said alongside his organization’s mini field clinic in a seaside demesne dotted with displaced people.
‘ veritably cold ’
Akozcan, the druggists ’ representative, advised that conditions in Antakya, where temperatures drop to zero degrees Celsius( 32 degrees Fahrenheit) at night, were also causing issues for babies.
“ The downtime is veritably cold and so there has started to be a lot of upper respiratory infections, especially with small children, ” he said.
At the improvisational drugstore, a child collected a box of capsules and was called back by a druggist to be given a fresh tube of cream and pointers on its use.
Croakers have advised about the pitfalls of skin conditions similar to honey-resistant scabies spreading because of the poor aseptic conditions.
Hundreds of druggists across Turkey have bestowed boxes of capsules, tapes, and other medical rudiments.
There's also high demand for masks to help combat the pervasive shadows of dust thrown up by the collapse of hundreds of structures.
They also shield wear and tear from the smell of decaying bodies as well as asbestos, a honey- resistant material formerly extensively used in construction but now seen as largely dangerous because its fibers can beget cancer when gobbled.