What Next - When an Earthquake Hits a Civil War
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How getting recovery aid and assistance to Turkey and northern Syria has been complicated by on-going aftershocks from the earthquake and the reverberations of the Syrian civil war.
Guests:
Louisa Loveluck, Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post.
Dr. Ahmad Dbais, Operations Director and Disaster Management Team Leader for UOSSM (Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations).
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| 0:30.0 | Ever since I got off the line with a medical worker named Ahmed Al-Dabias, |
| 0:40.0 | I can't stop thinking about just how long it's going to take, |
| 0:44.0 | Turkey and Syria, to recover from the earthquakes they've been suffering. |
| 0:49.0 | Ahmed lives in one of the hardest hit regions with his family. |
| 0:53.0 | And he's used to emergencies. |
| 0:56.0 | He helped build medical infrastructure in Syria during the war. |
| 1:00.0 | He was actually doing the same thing in Ukraine when the ground began to shake. |
| 1:04.0 | He found out what was going on because his 14-year-old daughter, Nore, |
| 1:08.0 | facetimed him in a panic at 4 in the morning. |
| 1:12.0 | And she said, |
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