Ankara, Feb 25 (RHC) On Saturday, the Türkiye press heaped praise on Cuba's Henry Reeve medical brigade work done in the province of Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of two recent life-threatening earthquakes, with a death toll of over 44,200 people.

“Being thousands of kilometers away from the epicenter of the earthquakes was not an obstacle at all to provide a voluntary medical service to the victims,” Anadolu Agency reported.

The 32-doctor team has been working since it arrived in the Kahramanmaras province on February 12, six days after the devastating earthquakes that hit southern Türkiye, the agency noted.

According to the press, Dr. Juan Carlos Dupuy Nuñez, head of the Cuban medical brigade, stated this group is made up of 28 doctors and nurses of different specialties.

The Cuban medical team treated most people with orthopedic complications and children with respiratory issues, Nuñez told Anadolu agency.

We treated people aged over 100 with diabetes, whose health condition worsened after the earthquakes. We managed to stabilize them and save their lives, he said.

Cuban and Türkiye orthopedic surgeons operated on and treated patients suffering from traumas, he assured. (Source: Prensa Latina).