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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Turkish health workers speak out on earthquake<br />
Kaya Genc<br />
The Lancet<br />
February 18, <strong>2023</strong><br />
Doctors have told The Lancet of the health impacts of, and inadequate<br />
preparation for, the earthquake which has killed more than 33 000 people. Kaya<br />
Genc reports from Istanbul.<br />
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Ali Ihsan Nergiz, a Turkish doctor practising in the UK, was visiting his family in<br />
Gaziantep when the first earthquake struck. “At 4:17, I woke up with the sheer<br />
magnitude of the earthquake, and maybe for more than a minute, I experienced<br />
the biggest horror in my life”, he told The Lancet. Nergiz volunteered with other<br />
doctors to try to reach the most affected area in Nurdağı with an ambulance.<br />
“Because of the effect of the earthquakes, the main road was split into two and<br />
was unavailable to use, infrastructure was entirely collapsed, and the Nurdağı<br />
State Hospital building was out of use. In two medical tents, we tried to apply<br />
the most basic resuscitation to rescue people with minimal medical supplies. It<br />
was hard to watch the horror in people’s eyes as they spent hours under rubble.”<br />
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