By Prensa Latina,
Chengdu : A shipment of 4,5 tons of serum, medication and sanitary material sent by Cuba reached Chendu, Sicuani, to treat the victims of the May 12 devastating earthquake.
The cargo arrived in Chengdu-Shuangliu y International airport and in the afternoon it reached Popular Hospital No.1 management and Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical brigade.
The 35-strong medics and paramedics and the cargo are part of the emergency relief the Cuban authorities supplied to help aid the victims of the devastating quake that ravaged Sichuan.
Brigade director, surgeon Jose Rodriguez, said the Cuban staffers, following section leadership orders, are working in two wards of the 2,300-bed hospital entirely devoted to aid quake victims.
They share work at the 12-million population city with a brigade of Japanese colleagues.
China’s Health Ministry reports say the hospitals in Sichuan and near-by provinces still host 30,000 patients from the affected districts with severe wounds caused by collapsing buildings.
The Cuban medical brigade felt at their hotel located near the hospital a 6.4 degree after-shake in the Richter Scale, the strongest reported so far.
The earthquake with epicenter in Wenchuan, a mountain district over 93 miles north-west Chengdu, was eight degrees, and Rodriguez said that even neophytes were calmed.