Shocking news from Turkey: According to reports, 14 intensive care patients were simply left in a hospital after the earthquake about a month ago. Nine of them have died. The authorities are investigating.
The daily “Sözcü” reported that two days after the February 6 earthquake, patients were rescued from a hospital in Antakya, but 14 patients in intensive care were “forgotten”. They were connected to devices.
The electricity went out in the hospital
After the earthquake, the electricity went out. Only a day after the rescue operation, other rescuers became aware of the patients left behind. Nine of them, including a baby, died and five others were rescued.
“We have launched appropriate investigations into these and similar allegations,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Wednesday, according to state news agency Anadolu.
The head of the medical association in Hatay, Sevdar Yilmaz, called for an investigation of all hospitals in the province. He himself counted more than 50 corpses in a state hospital 30 hours after the earthquake, he said “Sözcü”.
Earthquake victims: Doctors’ Association doubts official figures
The Turkish Doctors Association (TTB) doubts the official figures on the number of earthquake victims of more than 46,000 deaths in Turkey.
“We don’t know how many bodies are still under the rubble,” said TTB boss Sebnem Korur Fincanci of the German news agency. “We estimate that the death toll is unfortunately much higher.”
Source: Krone
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