The Government of Venezuela sent 50 specialists from different areas to Turkey and Syria, who are part of the Simón Bolívar Humanitarian Task Force, to support the search and rescue efforts of victims and those affected by the earthquakes.
“We have prepared, enlisted and arranged more than 50 technical professionals, doctors, specialists in disaster care, identification and search for people. Likewise, all their technical equipment, as well as the first tons of food and medicines that leave for Syria and Turkey,” Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos reported.
In statements to the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the official assured that, with the departure of this support group, “a logistics train opens” to attend to any other requirement in the disaster zone.