MALATYA - Serpil Bayram, who was pulled out of the rubble by the citizens on the first day of the earthquake in Erkenek, was caught in the second earthquake in the hospital where she was taken. Bayram, whose referring could not be made, died at home 12 hours later.

 

Dozens of houses were destroyed and hundreds of people were left under the rubble in the Erkenek rural neighborhood of the Doğanşehir district, which suffered the heaviest damage from the earthquake in Malatya. Citizens, who have been working under the rubble with their own means from the first day, pulled both the injured and the dead from the rubble. The Bayram family of 5 people, whose house in Erkenek was destroyed in the first earthquake, was left under the rubble. Father Hasan Bayram (40) and his three little children, the eldest 14 years old, were getting out of the rubble by their own means, while mother Serpil Bayram (35) was injured and waited to be pulled out of the rubble. Serpil Bayram, who was pulled out of the rubble after about 6 hours, was caught in the second major earthquake in Doğanşehir State Hospital, where she was taken. Serpil Bayram, who had to be taken home after the health workers and doctors left the hospital with the earthquake, died 9 hours later from internal bleeding.

 

'WE WANTED HELP 30 TIMES'

 

The husband of Serpil Bayram, Hasan Bayram, said: "There was an earthquake, I called 155, I called friends. My brothers and neighbors came, I was under a dent. We came out with our own means. We saved the children. My wife was under the bed in the bedroom. She was talking. She had nothing. It was raining. It was cold. We asked for help maybe 20-30 times. Last time someone said: 'We can't catch up with there'. They said that we should get out by our own means. We got her out of rubble. We took her to Doğanşehir Hospital."

 

'THE ROADS ARE CLOSED'

 

Stating that the doctor at the hospital said that urgent intervention is needed, Bayram said: "There is an earthquake at that moment. Everyone is running away. They leave the patient there too. I have a nephew with a broken leg, he takes him in his arms, he takes him out. Neither a paramedic nor a doctor. They say that the roads are closed. My brother gets on the minibus. The road is closed, the tunnels are troublesome. We couldn't reach anyone."

 

'THEY KILLED MY WIFE'

 

Noting that they brought his wife home when they could not find a way, Bayram continued as follows: "We brought her back home, we put her on this sofa bed. We lost our strength. Every part of us, our head was injured, our feet were injured. We all got pneumonia that day. What should we do? We could have saved it. If the doctors hadn't escaped, they could refer him there. I hear the ambulance took him by plane to Ankara. I hear they took patients to Antalya. If they had referred her, I would have taken her out of rubble. They killed my wife. Help came to us too late."

 

MA / Ahmet Kanbal