Pakistan

Medical, rescue teams and relief goods sent to Syria

ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the National Disaster Management Authority has sent a 20-member medical and rescue team to help out the earthquake victims in Syria.

Along with the medical and rescue team, the NDMA has also dispatched emergency relief goods to Syria, a press release said on Tuesday.

The relief team for Syria consists of 10 doctors from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and a 10-member rescue team from the Capital Development Authority. The relief items sent to Damascus include 131 winterised family tents and 3,966 kilogrammes of medicine.

Federal Minister for States and Frontier Region Talha Mehmood and Special Assistant Hamid Hameed sent the teams off for Syria.

More than 34,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on February 6.

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