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1. EVENT OVERVIEW
Priority concerns
The priority concerns in the areas affected by the earthquake are:
• access to mental health and psychosocial support;
• ensuring access to health care services for the most vulnerable and affected populations;
• post-trauma rehabilitative care;
• water and sanitation services;
• prevention and control of disease outbreaks, including through strengthening disease surveillance;
• ensuring access to essential health services, particularly for women, children, the elderly and those living with noncommunicable diseases; and
• enhancing the provision and accessibility of reproductive health services.
WHO actions in Türkiye in brief
• WHO continues to support the government-led response and recovery, working in close coordination with the Türkiye Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Family and Social Services (MoFSS) and the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
• WHO, with other United Nations (UN) agencies and humanitarian partners, laid down the strategic and operational priorities moving forward in order to improve outcomes for affected populations.
• In May, WHO provided online supervision sessions for 200 MoFSS staff. WHO provided training of facilitators in scalable psychological interventions to 100 MoFSS staff, utilizing the Self-Help Plus methodology. WHO held emergency obstetric care clinician training for 40 obstetricians from earthquake provinces.
• WHO has provided training in psychological first aid for children to 1476 staff from the MoFSS. WHO also reached a total of 1325 MoH and MoFSS staff who attended online “Ask the Expert” sessions on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Additional face-to-face support for social care workers was provided in Kahramanmaraş and Hatay.
• To ensure the infectious disease laboratory and surveillance systems in the earthquake-affected zone are functioning optimally, WHO conducted a two-week field trip to identify needs and gaps. The objectives of the activity included mapping diagnostic capacities for diseases under surveillance. In 10 earthquake-affected provinces, the team visited the designated public health and university labs, the provincial health directorates, and facilities providing primary health care at container and tent cities.
• WHO has initiated a series of procurement processes for mental health-care centres at the request of government. Based on visits to earthquake-affected provinces, along with health officials and GIS staff, WHO has identified adequate container installation sites, provided technical support to health response activities, and maintained strategic stockpiles for the treatment of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in our warehouse.
• WHO has delivered over US$ 1.1 million of supplies including for scabies and lice treatment, laboratory supplies for malaria and cholera, modules of trauma and emergency surgery kit (TESK), interagency emergency health kit (IEHK) and pneumonia kits.
• To respond to needs of the earthquake-affected population in Türkiye, WHO is strengthening physiotherapy services in the primary health-care system. Interventions are being planned in 24 healthy life centres (HLCs) throughout the country, emphasizing areas most affected by the earthquake.
• Through the Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) Network and the interagency mechanism, WHO has developed various communication and awareness materials endorsed by the MoH in Türkiye. The PSEAH focal points have conducted risk and need assessments in five provinces (Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Mersin and Adana).
• WHO has released a flash appeal for immediate funding totalling US$ 84.5 million, of which US$ 50.8 million has been requested for the Türkiye Country Office. As of 16 June, 23.5% of required funds for Türkiye have been received by WHO.