Tangshan veteran will aid water team

SHANGHAI: Dr Qu Huiping boarded a train here yesterday bound for Sichuan's quake-hit areas, where he will provide medical help just as he did 32 years ago after the Tangshan earthquake, which claimed 240,000 lives.

"I have the experience and am ready for the challenge," the 57-year-old doctor said.

His job this time will be to provide medical support to a team of 68 engineers and water quality experts dispatched to restore the water supply systems in two of the province's worst-hit cities, Mianzhu and Shifang.