Indonesia sends medical team to China`s Gansu province

A 20-strong Indonesian medical team was on Thursday sent to Lanzhao in China`s Gansu province to help local people injured in earthquakes that hit the region recently, an Indonesian embassy official said,

"The dispatch of the medical team is part of Indonesia`s assistance to the Chinese government to alleviate the sufferings of earthquake victims, in this case, those living in Gansu province," Indonesian Embassy spokesperson Rosmalawati Khalid said here on Friday.

She said Indonesia had originally planned to send 63 doctors to Gansu province but only 20 were eventually assigned in accordance with a recommendation from the Chinese government.

Pakistan also sent a medical team to Gansu on Thursday so there were now at least two foreign medical teams helping earthquake victims in the Chinese province, she said.

She added that ...