set up by doctors from israel, one of so many countries who sent teams to help the tens of thousands of injured. some of the patients we have seen today are now starting on the really long road to recovery, but for all of them, there are also the mental scars. there is the personal trauma but also the collective national trauma, too. and an international effort to support turkey is gaining momentum. doctors and nurses from the uk are now setting up a field hospital in turkoglu, where the town s hospital is no longer safe for patients. we are working with the turkish doctors and nurses that are here, set up their own tent and they are seeing patients but they are quite overwhelmed because after all the trauma you then have all the people who have their usual chronic illnesses, they are falling off their bikes still or they are doing things,
we hear that the world health organization is saying it is the worst natural disaster in a century. the worst natural disaster in a century. that according to the world health organization. that according to the world health organization. david wightwick is chief executive of uk med, a charity which deploys british nhs medics to emergencies he s in turkoglu, turkey establishing a field hospital. he s joined by lieutenant colonel seb burn from the uk military, who arrived on the scene last night. the immediate trauma care following the earthquake was largely dealt with in the first few days by all of the organisations around here. you have the secondary needs arising from that, so people who need further care, then you have a significant spike in needs because people are living out in the open, it got down to 7 the last two nights, so people who may have lost their medication