Floods 2011: China to send 50 relief workers

Team will work in Pakistan for about 10 days.


October 20, 2011

BEIJING: China is to send a 50-member medical team to provide humanitarian assistance in flood-hit areas, according to a written statement released on Wednesday by the Chinese defence ministry.

The medical team of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is scheduled to set out on October 20, and the team will work in Pakistan for about 10 days, the statement said.

The team will head to the country’s most devastated areas to assist Pakistan’s armed forces by providing medical rescue services for victims and conducting disease prevention programmes, it said.

Pakistani officials said that nearly seven million people have been affected by floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in southern parts of the country this year.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2011.

 

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