BRoll – EN– Turkey/Syria earthquake emergency – Ricardo Martinez, logistics coordinator of Emergency Unit of MSF-OCBA

Ricardo Martínez, logistics coordinator of the emergency unit at Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), leads one of the first teams that the organization is sending from Spain to Turkey. The team will assess the situation and the humanitarian needs in some of the areas most affected by the earthquake. Other MSF teams were already present in northern Syria, treating the injured and carrying out distributions of emergency medical kits and relief items since the first hours after the earthquake.

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Ricardo Martínez, coordinador logístico de la unidad de emergencias de Médicos sin Fronteras, lidera uno de los primeros equipos que la organización envía desde España a Turquía. Harán una evaluación de la situación y las necesidades humanitarias en algunas de las zonas más afectadas por el terremoto. Otros equipos de MSF ya estaban presentes en el norte de Siria, donde atienden a los heridos y llevan a cabo distribuciones de kits médicos de emergencia y productos de primera necesidad desde las primeras horas posteriores al terremoto.

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BRoll – ES – Turkey/Syria earthquake emergency – Ricardo Martinez, logistics coordinator of Emergency Unit of MSF-OCBA

Turkey earthquake: Ricardo Martinez, Emergency Unit logistics coordinator interview

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB148256

Date taken / Date Recorded 07/02/2023 3:11 PM

Country Syria, Türkiye

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m52s

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Additional Information / Shotlist Transcription:

00:00:05:06 - 00:00:20:01

This is Ricardo, I'm the logistical coordinator of the emergency unit in MSF. And I'm about to leave to Turkey to go to give our response to the to the earthquake that has happened yesterday in between Turkey and Syria.

00:00:20:01 - 00:00:43:15

If we want to to have a good impact in the intervention, we need to have the full team. So all the profiles are included and we we have been able to find all the colleagues that are needed in this intervention: administration, finance, medical, of course, mental health, logistic, supply.

00:00:44:08 - 00:01:20:10

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 we will know., we will see with them. We will coordinate with them. What these are added value in the intervention. The first 72 hours is search and rescue to 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

00:01:20:10 - 00:02:15:01

In parallel, we have to identify these chronic diseases that they are also collateral damages in this kind of interventions, and then mental health is another pillar of our intervention because we know, from experience that it's crucial, so important to start these activities in the very first moment and then, more in related with shelter and logistic so that there will be so many people that they have lost everything and they will need to be and their good condition because they the winter as you know it's quite tough these days in in this part of Turkey and Syria. And then we provide them heating system, energy, water, sanitation, hygiene.

00:02:15:01 - 00:03:02:01

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, that probably access is going to be the first challenge, then supply. Supply is of importance and we will need to identify as soon as possible the key places where we can get the supply in order to implement the intervention.

00:03:02:01 - End

Broll of Ricardo in MSF quarters doing some preparations just before the departure to his flight