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India shows friendship and influence as

massive help sent to quake-hit Turkey

A sixth plane from India carrying rescue personnel, essentials, and medical equipment for earthquake relief efforts has reached Turkey

OUR BUREAU

Hatay (Turkey)/New Delhi
he Indian army’s field hospi-
tal set-up in Turkey’s Hatay to
Tprovide assistance to the earth-
quake-affected people, has started
functioning with running medical,
surgical, and emergency wards; X-ray
lab and medical store. “The army
field hospital in Iskenderun, Hatay,
Turkiye has started functioning with
running Medical, Surgical & Emer-
gency Wards; X-Ray Lab & Medical
Store,” External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar tweeted on Thursday.
An Additional Directorate Gen-
eral of Public Information team will
work 24 x 7 to provide relief to the
affected people, according to Jais-
hankar. The army field hospital has MoS for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan visited the Hindon Airbase to see off the sixth IAF MCC flight under Operation Dost as India sends
been set up under India’s ‘Operation humanitarian assistance to quake-hit Turkey and Syria, in Ghaziabad on Wednesday (ANI)
Dost’ to provide assistance to Turkey’s
earthquake-hit people.
Jaishankar, sharing photos of Following the deadly earthquakes the affected areas. The rescue opera- rescue teams, dog squads, essential
the facility on Twitter on Wednes- on February 6, the death toll in Turkey tion and logistics involved are being search & access equipment, medi-
day, posted: “This field hospital in and adjoining Syria have surpassed monitored closely by the DG NDRF cines and medical equipment ready
Hatay, Turkiye will treat those af- 21,500 lives in both countries. in Delhi,” NDRF said in a release. for deployment in the relief efforts.”
fected by the earthquake. Our team In a press release, NDRF said Earlier, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar on Thursday said the
of medical & critical care specialists that their team in a joint operation S Jaishankar gave details about the sixth plane from India carrying rescue
and equipment are preparing to treat with AFAD (Disaster and Emergency sixth plane for Turkey and said that personnel, essentials, and medical
emergencies.”Union Home Minis- Management Authority) of Turkey on it carried rescue personnel, essentials equipment for earthquake relief ef-
ter Amit Shah on Thursday hailed Thursday pulled out a 6-year-old girl and medical equipment for earth- forts has reached Turkey.
the National Defense Response alive from the rubble of a collapsed quake relief efforts reached Turkey. The sixth flight carries more res-
Force for rescuing a minor girl’s life structure in Nurdagi town of Gazian- The sixth flight carries more res- cue teams, dog squads, and essential
in earthquake-hit Turkey, saying that tep province. cue teams, dog squads, and essential medicines for the quake-hit country.
the Indian government under Prime “NDRF rescuers have also re- medicines for the quake-hit country. Turkey’s Ambassador to India
Minister Narendra Modi is commit- trieved 08 dead bodies from the de- Taking to Twitter, Jaishankar wrote, Firat Sunel described India’s ‘Op-
ted to making NDRF the world’s bris till now. The rescue operation is “The sixth #OperationDost flight eration Dost’ as a “very important
leading disaster response Force. continuing since 7th Feb by NDRF in reaches Turkiye. More search and operation” that demonstrates the
Taking to Twitter, Shah said, friendship between the two nations.
“Proud of our NDRF. In the rescue Firat Sunel made the remarks at the
operations in Turkiye, Team IND-11 Hindon Airbase in Ghaziabad from
saved the life of a six-year-old girl, where Indian Air Force’s C17 Globe-
Beren, in Gaziantep city. Under the master aircraft with the NDRF team,
guidance of PM @narendramodi, we medical equipment, and relief equip-
are committed to making @NDRF- ment, took off for Turkey, as part of
HQ the world’s leading disaster re- the ongoing ‘Operation Dost.’
sponse force. #OperationDost.” Un- He said, “’Operation Dost’ is a
der ‘Operation Dost’ India had sent symbolic operation. It already proves
six planes carrying rescue personnel, that we are friends. We have to deep-
essentials and medical equipment for en our relations.”
earthquake relief efforts to Turkey In Syria, the total number of fatal-
and Syria. ities has been pegged at 3,162, includ-
NDRF personnel conduct a search and rescue ing 1,900 in rebel-held areas in the
operation in the debris of Nurdagi (ANI) > country’s northwest, according to the
‘White Helmets’ civil defense group.

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