and i had to be so silent so they don t ask for help from me. i was ashamed, he said. that s important, because there needs to be a full accounting of those early days, but here we sit, more than two weeks after those terrible quakes, and things are moving. for example, the turkish government has an emergency plan, hang on, let me finish, an emergency plan to shift millions of displaced people away from the quake zone. and indeed, they ve told all university students to leave campus because all of the nation s university campuses are going to be opened up to those homeless people. there is, indeed, a state of emergency across the country. i mean, this is action. this isn tjust words. government was so meticulously doing everything wrong. i mean, it was as if they decided to do everything wrong. you know, they decided to evacuate all the city students overnight and they didn t even tell them. so, overnight, thousands of students who had nowhere else to go were emptied from their dor
government has an emergency plan, hang on, let me finish, an emergency plan to shift millions of displaced people away from the quake zone. and indeed, they ve told all university students to leave campus because all of the nation s university campuses are going to be opened up to those homeless people. there is, indeed, a state of emergency across the country. i mean, this is action. this isn tjust words. government was so meticulously doing everything wrong. i mean, it was as if they decided to do everything wrong. you know, they decided to evacuate all the city students overnight and they didn t even tell them. so, overnight, thousands of students who had nowhere else to go were emptied from their dormitories, from their places, so that the earthquake victims could come, whereas there were many other places that were listed by the civilians that the earthquake victims could go. and those.
they are so tragic and so sad. and yet you do see people who rise up and do what needs to be done to save lives, even putting tents in the middle of a parking lot in the middle of a quake zone. it s remarkable. and the baby who you saw in the piece, good news. he continues to do well. you see people holding him there, keeping his airways open. he was transferred to another hospital. he is expected to make a recovery. my goodness, that s good nenews incredible to see people still trying to survive even after surviving the initial deficiting quake. that was dr. sanjay gupta reporting. all right. still ahead, police departments take on new strategies launching a new chapter in public service. a look at how departments are changing the way they recruit and train. day-in, day-out that s why dove men body wash has skin-strengthening nutrients and moisturizers that help rebuild your skin. dove men+care. smoother, , healthier skin with every shower.
people trying to offer help to those in need in that part of the world, we have learned that delivering much needed help to those folks impacted by the earthquake has become a challenge in some areas. mopping the devastated infrastructure, a significant number of now decimated hospitals are essentially unusable. yeah. and it s forcing doctors to get innovative. cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta in turkey with more. reporter: you are watching an operation on a 35-year-old. he has two fractures in his femur. these doctors are working intently to stabilize the bone. just watching this you probably can t tell where this operation is actually taking place. to give you an idea, we are in a tent in the middle of a parking lot outside the hospital in a quake zone and they are doing orthopedic surgery here.
international community. the u.n. appealed for $1 billion in aid. and u.s. secretary of state antony blinken also announced new u.s. funding for relief efforts. today i can announce that we will be bringing another $100 million to assist those who are so desperately in need. we ve drawn that from the emergency refugee and migration fund as well as the humanitarian assistance fund. that will be moving some. reporter: beyond the humanitarian response effort, the turkish government faces significant intrastructural issues ahead. authorities say at least 80% of the province s buildings will have to be rebuilt. the government for its part has committed to rebuilding the affected areas within a year with plans already under way to begin construction of 30,000 new apartments in the quake zone in