Russian Air Ambulance Workers Help Almost 100 Chinese Quake Victims
Posted on: Friday, 23 May 2008, 21:00 CDT
MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Russian Emergency Ministry's aerial ambulance stationed in the Chinese Sichuan province hit by an earthquake has provided help to 97 patients in China, said Alexander Ivanyus, the Ambulance's director and deputy chief of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's Tsentrospas squadron.
"At 9 a.m. on Friday morning, there are 21 in-patients in our hospital, three of them are being treated in intensive care," Ivanyus told journalists by a video link from China.
The main services provided by the Russian doctors in China are surgery and traumatology, he said. Most victims suffered limb and head injuries.
The Russian doctors feel the support of their Chinese colleagues and local residents, Ivanyus said. "We have been here for four days and we have never seen that kind of support anywhere else. Everything is organized at the top level," he said.
The epidemiological situation in the earthquake region is also very serious, he added.
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