Rescue & Aid
Medical team motivated by intense feeling for compatriots
By Zhang Yan, Qi Xiao and Hu Yongqi (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-04-21 07:16
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XINING - Feeling for their compatriots provided the motivation for the Taiwan Red Cross Medical Team to rush to the frontline of the quake zone in Yushu to provide medical assistance in the aftermath of the tragedy.
The team, which has already treated 90 injured residents transferred to the Xining People's Hospital in the first three days following the quake, is now heading for Golmud, the second largest city in Qinghai province, to continue to provide treatment to the injured, team leader Zhang Huanzhen told China Daily.
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Most of the victims were stone-faced, glassy-eyed, and bruised over most of their bodies, with arm and leg fractures.
The Taiwan medical team consists of 20 members, including six doctors, seven nurses, two pharmacists and five other working staff. Half of them participated in the Wenchuan earthquake rescue work and one-third of them have prior international rescue experience.
"We accumulated lots of rescue experience from the Wenchaun earthquake in 2008. Since then the Red Cross organization in Taiwan has enhanced communication and cooperation with its mainland side," Zhang said.
"Most importantly," he added, "the compatriots between Taiwan and the mainland are closely linked by deep feeling in their hearts, so it's our unavoidable responsibility to rush here for rescue after the disaster."
Drolma Yumtsang, a Tibetan woman, was hit on the waist and is receiving treatment at the hospital. Her nephew, Ngodrup Nyima, said Taiwan nurses are very patient and quite caring.
"The nurse could sit there for about one hour to clean my aunt's face, legs and scars," he told China Daily. "They really deserve our appreciation."
China Daily
(China Daily 04/21/2010 page5)
