KAHRAMANMARAS /Turkey/, February 9. /TASS/. An airmobile hospital of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Tsentrospas rescue service has opened in Turkey’s earthquake-ravaged Kahramanmaras province, a TASS correspondent reported on Thursday.

The hospital’s five units, including an operating room, an intensive care unit, a triage station and other necessary facilities, have been set up in a local park. Russian physicians have already treated the first patients. According to the doctors, the patients normally complain of traumas caused by falling from height or by collapsed constructions. Several dozen local citizens have gathered near the entrance, they will be first treated by the Emergencies Ministry’s psychologists.

On February 7, more than 100 rescue workers from the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in Turkey for search-and-rescue operations in Kahramanmaras province which suffered the most in the earthquake. The following day, a second plane with a group of rescuers and medics arrived. The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s contingent in Turkey numbers over 150 personnel. More than 50 members of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have arrived for rescue work in Syria.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, located in the country’s southeast, on February 6. The latest reports say that over 14,000 people have lost their lives in Turkey and more than 63,000 have been injured. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in ten provinces as well as in neighboring countries, including Syria. According to the Syrian Health Ministry, the devastating quake has left over 1,200 people dead in the already war-ravaged Middle Eastern country, with the number of those injured exceeding 2,200.