KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye: More than a week after his home was wrecked in a deadly earthquake that hit southern Türkiye, Mohammad Emin's body is still covered in dust and grime. Like countless other victims of a catastrophe that killed more than 41,000 in Türkiye and Syria, he is still waiting for a wash -
KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye: More than a week after his home was wrecked in a deadly earthquake that hit southern Türkiye, Mohammad Emin's body is still covered in dust and grime.
"We haven't been able to rinse off since the earthquake," said Emin, a 21-year-old graphic design student, as he carried flu medicine from the clinic of an open-air stadium serving as a camp for displaced people in the city of Kahramanmaras. A doctor at the clinic, Akin Hacioglu, said between 15 and 30 medics operated the facility, the only one of its kind at the camp, which serves up to 10,000 people during the day.
But Emin said there were no showers at or near the camp and the six toilets at the stadium were not enough to meet demand.
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