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Aya Batrawy

A look at the impact of delivering aid to Turkey and Syria through Dubai's global hub

The World Health Organization's logistics hub in Dubai's International Humanitarian City contains boxes of urgent medical supplies and medicine for dispatch to countries around the world, such as Yemen, Nigeria, Haiti and Uganda. Planeloads of medical supplies from these warehouses are being sent to help with earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Turkey. (Aya Batrawy/NPR)

DUBAI — In a dusty, industrial corner of Dubai, far from the city's gleaming skyscrapers and marbled buildings, boxes of child-sized body bags are stacked in a massive warehouse. They will be shipped to Syria and Turkey for earthquake victims.

Like other aid agencies, the World Health Organization is struggling to reach people in need. But from its global logistics hub in Dubai, the U.N. agency tasked with international public health has already loaded two planes with critical medical supplies, enough to help some 70,000 people. One plane is destined for Turkey and the other for Syria.

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