Over 2,800 wounded in quake treated in hospitals

BEIJING - Figures from the National Health and Family Planning Commission showed that 2,833 people injured in the devastating 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Southwest China's Yunnan province have been treated as of 4 pm Tuesday, with 1,295 being hospitalized.

Among those hospitalized, 122 are seriously injured and another 40 are in critical condition, the commission said in a statement.

The local health authority is planning to transfer critically injured survivors to the provincial capital Kunming and neighboring Sichuan province for treatment, according to the commission.

The earthquake, which occurred on Sunday afternoon has killed at least 589 people.

So far, 1,615 medical workers from both military and civilian departments are performing medical and epidemic prevention tasks in the quake zone.