With one MRI for 4.7 million people, 64 X-rays, and 73 kidney dialysis machines, 7 CT scanners and one MRI, doctors in northwest Syria are racing against the clock to treat 8,500 injuries.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February killed more than 50,000 people and flattened multiple cities. More than 4,500 of those who died, and 8,500 were injured, are in northwest Syria. The region with no unified government and was cut off from the world for more than 12 years amid a devastating war.
More than 8,500 injured people need to be accommodated in only 66 functional hospitals. All of northwest Syria has just 86 orthopedic surgeons, 64 X-ray machines, 7 computerized tomographies (CT) scanners, and one magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine across the region, WHO reports. The medical situation in northwest Syria is catastrophic.
