Japanese medics to begin work for quake victims in China's Chengdu

CHENGDU, China-A Japanese medical support team sent to Chengdu, Sichuan, will begin providing care Wednesday for people injured in the huge earthquake that hit the Chinese province last week.The team, which arrived in the capital of Sichuan Province, replaced Japan's emergency disaster relief team that had been engaged in rescue and recovery operations since Friday.The new team-consisting of four doctors, seven nurses, seven pharmacists and five liaison officers-was dispatched to the quake- hit region in response to a request from Beijing. It left Narita airport on a chartered flight for Chengdu, Sichuan, where the magnitude 8.0 quake struck on May 12.Before heading to China, Kazuhiro Tajiri, a 56-year-old Foreign Ministry official leading the medical team, told the team members,"I'd like you all to get together as a team for the aim of relieving as many local people as possible from suffering."Kenichiro Ogura, a 48-year-old doctor who went through Japan's Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, said, "What's most important is to grasp what victims need.I hope to conduct activities that will help foster friendly relations between Japan and China even after reconstruction."
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