Closing Updated: February 12, 2023, 00: 24 IST
Indian NDRF officers aboard IAF’s C-17 aircraft ready equipment which they’ll grab to earthquake-hit Turkey to help with search and rescue operations (Image: MEA_India/Twitter)
It’s miles the seventh flight carrying support fabric below India’s ‘Operation Dost’ which became launched to provide assistance to the 2 countries after they had been hit by a devastating quake on Monday that has killed over 20,000 folks
India on Saturday despatched additional consignments of existence-saving medicines and support fabric for earthquake victims of Turkiye and Syria onboard a C-17 militia transport aircraft.
It’s miles the seventh flight carrying support fabric below India’s ‘Operation Dost’ which became launched to provide assistance to the 2 countries after they had been hit by a devastating quake on Monday that has killed over 20,000 folks.
“The seventh #OperationDost flight departs for Syria and Türkiye. Flight is carrying support fabric, scientific support, emergency & serious care medicines, scientific equipment & consumables,” Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted.
Within the previous couple of days, India despatched to Turkiye medicines, a cell sanatorium and specialised search and rescue groups onboard five C-17 Globemaster militia transport aircraft to enhance the country’s rescue efforts.
India additionally despatched support fabric onboard a C-130J aircraft of the Indian Air Power to Syria.
Officers stated the flight that left on Saturday night is first headed to Syria’s capital Damascus, and after offloading the support fabric there, this would perhaps perhaps fly to Adana in Turkiye.
They stated the flight is carrying over 35 tonnes of support fabric, of which over 23 tonnes is for support efforts in Syria, and round 12 tonnes for Turkiye.
The assistance being despatched to Syria contains support fabric akin to snoozing mats, generator models, solar lamps, tarpaulin, blankets, emergency and serious care medicines, and catastrophe support consumables, the officers stated.
The fabric headed to Turkiye contains affords for the Indian Military’s discipline sanatorium and Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power (NDRF) groups, scientific equipment akin to ECG, patient video show, anaesthesia machine, syringe pumps and glucometer.
The consignment additionally contains blankets and quite lots of support materials, the officers stated.
The Indian Military’s discipline sanatorium in Turkiye has already offered scientific treatment to a series of folks injured within the earthquake.
India on Monday decided to straight away dispatch search and rescue groups of the NDRF, scientific groups and support fabric to Turkiye following Prime Minister Modi’s instructions to provide all imaginable assistance to the country.
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