NEW DELHI: In the week since multiple powerful earthquakes hit Turkey as well Syria, the Indian Government has sent a whooping medical assistance worth Rs.7.00 crore to the affected nations, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said.
When the accident hit on February 6, three truckloads of relief supplies, including life-saving emergency medications and protective gear, were organised at Hindon airbase within a 12-hour period.
The shipment contained 5,945 tonnes of emergency relief supplies, including 27 life-saving medications, two different types of protective gear, and three different types of critical care equipment, totaling a value of about 2 crore.
"On February 7, trucks began to arrive by 10 a.m., and by 4 p.m., the Indian Air Force (IAF) had received the relief supplies. The last truckload arrived at 9.30 p.m., and the flight carrying emergency relief supplies left for Syria the same day at 10 p.m., said Mandaviya.
On February 10, a larger shipment of supplies for Turkey and Syria was organised. The shipment for Syria contained 72 critical care medications, consumables, and protective gear weighing 7.3 tonnes and costing Rs. 1.4 crore. He noted that 14 different types of medical and critical care equipment worth $4 million were among the relief supplies supplied to Turkey.
These included paracetamol, oxygen masks, wheelchairs, ventilators, glucose metres, thermometers, ECG machines, glucometers, and canulas, among other things.
Meanwhile, Kerala finance minister K N Balagopal Wednesday announced in the assembly that Kerala will provide Rs.10 crore as earthquake relief for Turkey and Syria where over 7000 people have been killed in a deadly earthquake.
A massive earthquake, 7.8 magnitudes on Richter Scale, ripped through Turkey and Syria on February 6, followed by a series of earthquakes causing huge devastation, loss of lives and damage to infrastructure in both countries.
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