Around 23 million may be affected by earthquake in Turkey, Syria: WHO

GENEVA, Feb 7 (MENA) - Senior officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Syria's humanitarian needs were the highest after a major earthquake killed thousands there and in southern Turkey.

Some 23 million people, including 1.4 million children, were likely to be exposed both senior officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that Syria's humanitarian needs were the highest after a major earthquake killed thousands there and in southern Turkey. 

Adelheid Marschang, WHO Senior Emergency Officer, said Turkey had a strong capacity to respond to the crisis but that the main unmet needs in the immediate and mid-term would be across the border in Syria, already grappling with a years-long humanitarian crisis due to the civil war and a cholera outbreak.

"This is a crisis on top of multiple crises in the affected region said at the organization's board meeting in Geneva," she said.