Samaritan’s Purse deploys an emergency field hospital to help those affected in Turkey, “We are responding to meet needs in Jesus’ Name”

Led by evangelist Franklin Graham, the Christian organization Samaritan’s Purse is already in the process of sending emergency field hospitals to care for the number of injured left by the earthquake last Monday in Turkey that also affected Syria.

According to the evangelist, the organization mobilized disaster response specialists that are already on the way to bring all possible medical care to thousands of people who are suffering from this natural disaster.

“This massive earthquake has devastated Turkey. Thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and are searching for their loved ones. It is cold there and survivors are in shock—they need our help. We are responding to meet needs in Jesus’ Name. Please pray for all those who are suffering,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse. 

Likewise, Samaritan’s Purse made fundraising available to people for those who want to donate and directly help all those affected.

The field hospital will have some 52 beds and will have a staff of about 75 employees that will address medical needs of those who are in the middle of a disaster; likewise, they will have an emergency operating room and a pharmacy as well.

“We are deploying a Samaritan’s Purse Field Hospital and disaster response team to Turkey to help provide medical care and relief to earthquake victims. The death toll has now passed 11,000 and is still climbing from this devastating quake—with many more injured. Pray for all of those who are suffering,“ said Graham on  his Facebook account. 

On the other hand, the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that tents are already being set up in many places in Kahramanmaras, so that “no one is left on the street,” reported the Associated Press.

More than a dozen countries have sent rescuers, including trained dogs to search for survivors, but the magnitude of the earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks have caused so much damage that isolated areas are waiting for international and national help.

In addition to this, the low temperatures complicate the rescue work. It has been approximately -6 degrees Celsius. 

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According to reports, there is a Turkish city called Malatya, of which no one has survived. Bodies lay side by side on the ground, covered with blankets, as rescuers waited for funeral vehicles to pick them up, according to former Tv reporter Ozel Pikal, who said he saw eight bodies being pulled from the ruins of a building, killed by the earthquake or maybe by the cold.

“As of today, there is no hope left in Malatya. No one is coming out alive from the rubble,” said Pikal by telephone. 

“Our hands cannot pick up anything because of the cold. Work machines are needed,” he added.

The current number of deaths is already above 11,000, without  counting the injured and missing.