India to send search & rescue, medical teams along with relief materials to Turkey
On Monday the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that two teams of NDRF comprising 100 personnel with specially trained dog squads and necessary equipment are ready to be flown to earthquake-hit Turkey for search and rescue operations.
The Ministry said that India is willing to help Turkey in its hour of crisis after a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck a wide area in the country.
More than 1000 people are feared to be dead and over 3,320 others injured in Turkey and Syria after the massive earthquake struck a wide area near the two countries’ border, according to authorities.
Medical teams are also being readied with trained doctors and paramedics with essential medicines. Relief material will be dispatched in coordination with the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Indian Embassy in Ankara and the Consulate General office in Istanbul.
The Ministry of External Affairs said, “In the light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instructions to offer all possible assistance to cope with the earthquake in Turkey today, P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister held a meeting in South Block to discuss immediate relief measures.
It was decided that Search & Rescue teams of NDRF and medical teams along with relief materials would be dispatched immediately in coordination with the Government of the Republic of Turkey.
The meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, representatives of the Ministries of Home Affairs, NDMA, NDRF, Defence, MEA, Civil Aviation, and Health & Family Welfare.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Remember what they did to Sambhaji after his death? Even Shivaji gave Afzal Khan respectful burial after death.
This is defeatist mentality.