Turkey earthquake: WHO deploying delegation, supplies to impacted region – National | 24CA News

The World Health Organization is deploying professional groups and flights with medical provides to Turkey and Syria after Monday’s devastating earthquake.

It will ship a high-level delegation to coordinate its response in addition to three flights with medical provides, one in all which is already on its strategy to Istanbul, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus instructed a media briefing on Wednesday.

“The health needs are tremendous,” mentioned Dr Iman Shankiti, the WHO consultant for Syria.

(Reporting by Jennifer Rigby and Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber; Editing by Kevin Liffey)