Increasing number of Turkey-Syria earthquake survivors show signs of PTSD

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Increasing number of Turkey-Syria earthquake survivors show signs of PTSD
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The extent of the trauma survivors have experienced is enormous. Some have been pulled from the rubble after hours in the cold to discover family members have died or are missing, and their neighborhoods reduced to mounds of shattered concrete.

February 14, 2023, 5:42 PMISKENDERUN, Turkey - Doctors in a Turkish field hospital in the southern city of Iskenderun said they are treating increasing numbers of patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks after last week's earthquake.

Tiwari is part of a team of almost 100 experts from India who established a field hospital to treat survivors of the earthquake, one of the worst in Turkey's modern history, after a local hospital was destroyed. Across the border in Syria, a makeshift centre run by UNICEF provided children with "psychological first aid", encouraging them to play and feel safe."With any loud voice or movement, he gets scared. Sometimes when he is asleep he wakes up and says 'earthquake'," said his father Hassan Moath.

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