Hungary sends medical supplies to Turkiye

Hungary has delivered another 105 tonnes of medical supplies to Turkiye, to help the treatment of those injured in the earthquake in February, the foreign minister said in Ankara on Thursday.

Speaking at the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), Péter Szijjártó expressed his sympathies to Turkiye over the earthquakes on February 6, which killed over 50,000 people in southeast Turkiye and Syria.

In the first stage of the rescue efforts, Hungary sent 167 rescue troops and 29 dogs who saved 35 lives, the ministry cited Szijjártó as saying.

Later, Hungary delivered 1,500kg of medicine in an effort to relieve the Turkish healthcare system after the disaster. The latest delivery contained 105 tonnes of health-care and medical equipment, including “ventilators, bandages, IV equipment and medicine, assembled after consultation with Turkish authorities,” he said.

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Successful rescue efforts require international cooperation. Hungary supports an agreement on coordinating disaster management in OTS states, and is ready to take an active part in the work, he said.