Doctors in a Turkish field hospital in the southern city of Iskenderun said they are treating increasing numbers of patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks after last week's earthquake.
The extent of the trauma survivors have experienced is enormous. Some have been pulled from the rubble after hours in the cold and darkness to discover family members have died or are missing, and the busy neighborhoods where they lived have been reduced to mounds of shattered concrete. FILE PHOTO
The extent of the trauma survivors have experienced is enormous. Some have been pulled from the rubble after hours in the cold and darkness to discover family members have died or are missing, and the busy neighborhoods where they lived have been reduced to mounds of shattered concrete. "People only now are starting to realize what happened to them after this shock period," said a Turkish medical official.
"On one person we had to do an amputation to save his life ... there were life and limb-saving surgeries. Now the case profile is changing."
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