North Texas Psychiatrist Traveled To Site Of Turkey-Syria Earthquake To Help Survivors With Mental Health Struggles

By Erin Jones, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

March 7, 2023

COLLEYVILLE – It's been about a month since a devastating earthquake hit Syria and Turkey. The death toll is now sitting at 50,000.

For the past two weeks, a local psychiatrist was on the ground, helping survivors with their mental health.

"Seeing things in person always brings things into perspective," Dr. Nora Abdullah said. "So many people are sleeping in tents only because they don't know when the next earthquake will happen. They don't know if they can even go home to a place that could potentially fall to the ground."

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