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BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Being the only foreign rescue team to run medical-aid stations in quake-ravaged Haiti, Chinese rescuers are giving quake victims what they desperately need: medical assistance, team members told Xinhua via phone Saturday.
The China International Search and Rescue Team, arriving in Port-au-Prince at 2 a.m. local time on Jan. 14, opened the first medical assistance station at 8 p.m. the next day, said captain Hou Shike.
The station had been treating patients pulled out of debris and provided medical support to medical and security personnel, he said.
China’s second station in the refugee camp near the office building of Haitian prime minister had treated and some 120 people, while giving hygiene tips and conducting epidemic prevention work in the camp.
”To prevent epidemics, we had sterilized an area of 300 square meters in the refugee camp crammed with thousands of quake victims,” Hou said.
”Confronted with severe wound infection, numerous refugees are in urgent need of professional medical treatment,” said Fan Haojun, deputy captain of the team.
He said although local volunteers had done their best to offer basic treatment, but because of the lack of wound cleansing, infections among some of the wounded had deteriorated that even small operations costed more time and medicines than usual, said Fan.
The Chinese rescue team of more than 60 people left Beijing for the Caribbean island Wednesday night along with 10 tonnes of food, equipment and medicines.
The massive quake also left eight Chinese police officers, serving in China’s peacekeeping forces, buried. The body of one missing police officer had been found, said China’s public security ministry late Saturday night.
Second body of buried Chinese peacekeeping police in Haiti found
BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — The Ministry of Public Security confirmed early Sunday morning that a second body of eight Chinese peacekeeping police buried in the debris of Haitian earthquake was found just hours ago.
The body was identified to be Zhong Jianqin, a public relations officer for anti-riot peacekeeping police of China in Haiti.Full story
China’s relief materials leave for quake-hit Haiti
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — A Boeing-747 jumbo jet carrying 90 tonnes of Chinese government’s emergency humanitarian relief materials took off from Beijing Capital International Airport to quake-hit Haiti at 12:22 p.m. on Saturday.

Emergency humanitarian aid cargo is seen before being loaded on a plane at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Jan. 16, 2010. A Boeing-747 jumbo jet carrying 90 tonnes of Chinese government’s emergency humanitarian aid cargo took off from Beijing Capital International Airport to quake-hit Haiti at around 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Commerce. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli)
The 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) quake-relief materials, including tents, stretchers, food, medicines, clothing and water purification equipment, is China’s first batch of relief material to the Caribbean country. Full story
Chinese FM offers deep sympathy to victims in quake-hit Haiti
TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechion Saturday extended condolences and deep sympathy to families of the victims in quake-hit Haiti.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, is interviewed by Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television (CCTV) in Tokyo, capital of Japan, Jan. 16, 2010. Yang is in Japan for the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC). (Xinhua/Ren Zhenglai)
“We feel great regret over the heavy casualties and enormous damage to properties caused by the major earthquakes in Haiti,” said Yang in an interview with Xinhua and China Central Television(CCTV).
Full storyChances slim for survival of 8 Chinese officers in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Hopes of survival are dwindling for eight Chinese police officers trapped under rubble in Port-au-Prince, chief of the Chinese rescue team said Friday.
The Chinese rescue team was doing everything possible to speed up the search for the officers, hoping that miracles could happen, Huang Jianfa told Xinhua. Full story
Rescue continues for 8 Chinese police officers buried under Haitian quake debris
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese rescuers were still looking for eight Chinese police officers buried under the debris of the devastating Haitian quake, a Chinese official said on Friday.

Chinese peacekeepers work on the remains of a building in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, Jan. 15, 2010. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
A Chinese rescue team of over 60 members had been dispatched from home, and the Chinese peacekeeping police in Haiti were looking for the eight police officers buried under the local UN building, said Wang Shuping, Chinese business representative in Haiti. Full story
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