The United Nations announces the completion of the operation to rescue survivors in Syria and the transition to providing material and psychological assistance to victims of the earthquake in an Arab country where 95% of the areas hit by 7.8 on the Richter scale on February 6 are under protection. according to foreign observers, rescuers did not search.

More than 4,500 people have already been killed in Syria, which, in addition to the latest Turkish authorities’ count of 31,643 people killed in Turkey, brings the official death toll to over 36,100.

The earthquake relief phase in Turkey and Syria is “coming to an end” and there is an urgent need to move to providing shelter, food, schools and psychosocial assistance, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to Aleppo in northern Syria. Monday.

“The most amazing thing here is that even in Aleppo, which has suffered so much for so many years, at this moment, at that moment … it was the worst thing that these people experienced,” Mr. Griffiths added.

The UN spokesman also said the UN would offer aid to be delivered from Syrian government areas to the rebel-held northwest of the country, also devastated by the deadly earthquake.

The problem is that most of the quake-hit areas in northern Syria have not been surveyed by rescue teams, meaning that the death toll there is expected to be significantly higher than the current – at least unofficial – death toll of more than 4,500 people. at least 7,600 injured, on the other hand, there are huge public health risks from casualties under the rubble, especially when temperatures start to rise.

Bahia Zrikem, a representative of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told the Turkish state television channel TRT that rescue teams searched only 5% of the areas of Syria affected by Engelado, and the rest remained for another week. destructive earthquakes, without the approach of rescuers.

Source: Reuters, TRT