Earthquake in Turkey leaves 1.5 million : An official with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has estimated that 1.5 million people in Turkey have been left homeless by earthquakes and that some 500,000 housing units will need to be rebuilt in the country.
And UNDP’s Turkish resident representative, Luisa Vinton, told an online press briefing on Tuesday that the country’s government had inspected about 70 percent of the buildings affected by the earthquake. And of these, 412,000 housing units in 118,000 buildings have either collapsed or are in need of complete demolition.
And he has said that the amount of debris that needs to be cleaned up is enormous and that UNDP is trying to reduce the threat of hazardous waste, Xinhua news agency reports.
Earthquake in Turkey leaves 1.5 million
Earthquake in Turkey leaves 1.5 million So according to Vinton, even two weeks after the first earthquake, there is reason to call it the biggest natural disaster in Turkey’s history.
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He has said that the government has also concluded the search and rescue phase for the first earthquake on Sunday and the last survivor has been pulled from the rubble only about 300 hours after the earthquake.
Earthquake in Turkey leaves 1.5 million WHO senior emergencies official Catherine Smallwood told Tuesday’s press briefing that managing the risks of communicable diseases is also important now that many displaced people live in close quarters that sometimes lack access to toilets and clean water. Bad even with access.
“There’s an increased risk of respiratory diseases, cholera, hepatitis A and measles,” and she added.
Also in recent weeks, a series of earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 6.4 to 7.7 struck Turkey’s southern Kahramanmaraş province.
And the tremors of the earthquake have also been felt in some parts of Syria. And according to media reports, an estimated 47,000 people have lost their lives in both these countries.
