[FIRST PERSON] Doctors Without Borders in Turkiye and Syria: First 72 hours is search and rescue

'Mental health is another pillar of our intervention, because we know from experience that it's crucial.' Opinion ISpeak

This is Ricardo Martinez. I’m the logistical coordinator of the emergency unit in Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières . And I’m about to leave for Turkey, for our response to the earthquake that happened in between Turkey and Syria.

The sooner we get in touch with the local authorities, the sooner we will understand what their most acute needs are. And then we will know, we will see. We will coordinate with them. What is our added value in the intervention? The first 72 hours is search and rescue, the most critical part of the intervention, and in parallel the referral system, because there are a lot of wounded, there are a lot of people that got injured and they need their urgent surgical intervention.

So it’s going to take us more than expected because the roads, the highways have been damaged. So it’s going to be a challenge for us to get as close as possible to the epicenter of the intervention. And once we are there, we don’t know, we don’t know how long it’s going to take us to be able to do a good assessment in order to understand the most critical needs for the intervention. Probably access is going to be the first challenge, then supply.

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