GENEVA Feb 12 Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) ) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will go to the Syrian province of Idlib, which is not controlled by the authorities.
«I'm waiting for a departure across the front line to the northwest (Idlib province — ed.), where, as we were told, the consequences are even worse,» Tedros said at a briefing.
According to WHO, about 8.5 thousand people died in Syria as a result of the earthquake.
Earlier, the governor of Idlib, Sair Salhab, said that the Syrian authorities are ready to deliver the necessary humanitarian aid in connection with the earthquake to the province of Idlib, which is not controlled by the authorities, but the militants prevent this.
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred on February 6 with an interval of nine hours in the province of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in 10 provinces of the country and neighboring states, of which Syria suffered the most. According to the latest data, 29,605 people died as a result of the disaster in Turkey.
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