Army surgical team's nurses 'honored' to help
As sunshine filtered through camouflage mesh that served as a makeshift roof over the lawn connecting ward tents, Xu Zhaoxia checked her first-aid kit after visiting patients in her area of responsibility.
She was eager to join a task force to serve earthquake victims in parts of Kathmandu who are not able to come to the rough field hospital - a combination of tents, vehicles and shabby bungalows just meters away from the official seat of the Nepalese government, Singha Durbar, or Lion Palace.
It was a typical working scene lately for Xu, 42, the head nurse of the emergency department of China's Chengdu Military Region Medical Team, which landed in Kathmandu on April 27, two days after the magnitude-7.9 quake that ravaged communities in the Himalayan nation and claimed more than 8,000 lives.
