Ms Adelheid Marschang, the WHO's senior emergency officer, said there was a 'clear concern' that 'underlying health risks will likely be exacerbated' by the aftermath of the Turkiye-Syria earthquake.
Monday's 7.8-magnitude tremor has killed more than 11,700 people in Turkiye and Syria, flattening thousands of buildings and trapping an unknown number of people.
"We've got a lot of people who have survived now out in the open, in worsening and horrific conditions," he explained, with disrupted access to water, fuel, electricity and communications. She said there was a"clear concern" that"underlying health risks will likely be exacerbated" by the aftermath. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus anticipated that the death toll would keep climbing, saying:"With the weather conditions and ongoing aftershocks, we're in a race against time to save lives."
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