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Syria-Türkiye earthquakes: MSF responds with emergency care, supplies by convoy

Powerful earthquakes hit northwest Syria and the south of Türkiye on Feb. 6. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, already present providing humanitarian assistance in northwest Syria, are together with local partners responding to people’s urgent needs in the area since the disaster hit. Within the first hours of the first earthquake, MSF teams treated over 200 patients in Idlib.
An MSF convoy of 14 trucks entered northwestern Syria on Feb. 21, arriving from Türkiye through the Hammam border crossing point. This first convoy carries 1,296 tents destined to families left homeless by the earthquakes and 1,296 winter kits to insulate the tents from the cold.
However, warns MSF, an urgent increase in the volume of supplies is needed to match the scale of the humanitarian crisis. In the 10 days following the earthquake…

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