Spanish teams continue their work in the earthquake zone

The Spanish Technical Assistance Response Team (START) is also providing support to earthquake search and rescue efforts in Hatay.

The Spanish are contributing to the treatment of earthquake victims at the field hospital they have set up, as well as to search and rescue activities among the rubble of collapsed buildings. START, which is made up of a team of lifeguards, firefighters, lawyers, nurses, midwives and different specialties from the city, provides services in a field hospital that can care for 200 patients a day and has the capacity to carry out 7 large and 15 small ones. . scale surgeries.

Juan Carlos Martínez Escoriaza, a gynecologist and obstetrician who works at the field hospital, said it is important to establish many field hospitals in the cities hit by the quake. Pointing out the importance of working with professionals to help victims and being ready to deploy such hospitals, Escoriaza said: “The important thing about this is that we have received training in Spain before and that we are ready to go immediately, which is the real formula. help. These types of hospitals coordinated by the World Health Organization are efficient.

Using the phrase “Every patient we see has a story,” Escoriaza emphasized that some patients must be followed up privately because some doctors lost their lives in the disaster. Escoriaza said: “Here, the children impressed me the most. A child who comes to our pediatric department and asks for water, just water… It seems incredible to me and it breaks our hearts”. (AA)