By Xinhua,
Beijing : Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has sent 50 medical teams comprising 1,500 staff to the quake-hit areas in the country’s southwestern province of Sichuan, a defence ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
According to the spokesman, staff from the PLA hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an in northwestern Shaanxi Province are flying to the disaster-hit areas for relief work.
With this batch, a total of 68 PLA medical teams will be operating in the quake-hit areas.
The ministry said cargo planes of the Chinese air force and civil aviation already completed three operations for sending manpower and aid to the disaster hit areas Tuesday.
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