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A field hospital has been established since February 16 by a Japanese team in Oğuzeli, in the Turkish province of Gaziantep, hard hit by the earthquake.
The temporary establishment, which currently has 36 Japanese doctors, nurses and rescue workers, to which about 40 more members will soon be added, has started medical examinations and surgical operations. It thus offers valuable assistance to local institutions that lost part of their equipment after the disaster that killed more than 40,000 people.
At the start of the week, a Japanese self-defense force plane landed in southern Turkey with 15 tonnes of assistance equipment on board such as tents, respirators and even dialyzers, which make it possible to purify the blood after suffering prolonged compression of the body while buried under the rubble (also called “crush syndrome”).
The field hospital created by a Japanese medical team in Turkey.
[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
