574 - The Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Amany Qaddour, regional director for Syria Relief and Development, a nonprofit humanitarian organization on the ground in Syria, joins Dr. Sharfstein They discuss the enormous challenge of responding to a natural disaster in a part of the world that has suffered from conflict, displacement, and crisis for years. To make a contribution to the organizations mentioned in the podcast, see https://srd.ngo/ and https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/ .
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
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| 0:26.6 | For future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Josh Sharfstein. |
| 0:35.6 | Today, the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. I speak to Aminik Cador, |
| 0:40.3 | executive director for Syria Relief and Development, a nonprofit humanitarian organization on the ground in Syria. She is also a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:55.8 | Let's listen. |
| 1:00.6 | Amani Kador, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call. |
| 1:04.8 | Talk about the situation in Syria and Turkey after this devastating earthquake. |
| 1:08.5 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm at a loss for words right now, so we're going to try this. But I think I first want to start just acknowledging the lives that have been lost in the last few days, the tens of thousands actually that have been killed that are still being found. |
| 1:30.7 | Our staff that are still missing and unaccounted for in northwest Syria, and certainly in Turkey, those that have lost their family members as well, including one of my staff who's still missing to this moment with his wife and child. |
| 1:43.0 | So just really prayers to all of the people |
| 1:45.8 | missing right now, waiting for loved ones, news of them, just with search and rescue teams, |
| 1:51.5 | just in full disarray. I think this is just, we have to take a moment to acknowledge that. |
| 1:59.5 | The enormous scale of this tragedy can obscure the devastation that even one death represents. |
| 2:08.0 | Do you think people need to know to wrap their mind around what's happening right now? |
| 2:12.3 | Yeah. Maybe I'll start with just situating what's going on right now and sort of giving a little bit of a |
| 2:17.0 | background of where we were and how we got to this point as well. I think, you know, this particular |
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