Syrian Girl Rescued After Quake Faces Risk Of Having Her Legs Amputated
A Syrian woman who was pulled from the rubble of a constructing destroyed by an earthquake faces the danger of getting her legs amputated, a health care provider treating her mentioned on Sunday.
The 12-year-old woman, who has not been named, was rescued on Saturday from {a partially} collapsed constructing within the city of Derince, within the western province of Kırıkkale.
She was taken to the Kırıkkale University Hospital, the place she is being handled for severe accidents to her leg.
"The girl's condition is very serious. We may have to amputate her legs," mentioned Dr. Ahmet Bayram, the top of the hospital's emergency division.
The woman is certainly one of a whole lot of people that had been killed or injured within the highly effective earthquake that struck Turkey on Friday.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of seven.2, struck close to the town of Elazığ, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Derince.
