BEIRUT, February 16. /TASS/. A special team from the Main Military Clinical Medical Center of the Belarusian Armed Forces arrived in Syria on Wednesday to provide assistance to earthquake victims, the SANA news agency reported.

The team is led by Andrey Gurinovich, a colonel of the Belarusian Armed Forces’ Medical Service. He told the news agency that a military field hospital will be deployed in Aleppo within two days.

"Two planes have delivered the necessary medical equipment and medicines," he said. "It’ll have an operating room, an inpatient and diagnostics units and an intensive care unit."

Gurinovich said his team includes 45 military doctors such as surgeons, general practitioners and anesthesiologists.

The hospital will serve 70 patients daily. In addition, Gurinovich said "Belarusian military doctors intend to visit the centers of temporary residence of Syrian families who have lost their homes, in order to cover as many victims as possible."

Earlier on Wednesday, a plane with humanitarian aid for earthquake victims was sent from Belarus to Turkey. The cargo includes tents, blankets, medicines, personal care products, children's clothing and sleeping bags. A special purpose team of the Belarusian Emergency Situations Ministry is currently operating in Turkey.

Powerful 7.7 and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes rocked Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province in the country’s southeast on February 6, nine hours apart from each other. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in 10 provinces as well as in neighboring countries, of which Syria was hardest hit. According to the latest reports, the death toll in Turkey has surpassed 35,400 people, while over 105,000 were injured. The Syrian Health Ministry said earlier more than 1,400 people are currently listed as dead and more than 2,300 as injured in the government-controlled areas.