Chinese medical squad starts aid work Sri Lanka
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-01-04 16:40

A 14-member Chinese medical team Tuesday started the aid work, a small town some 90 km off Colombo, the capital of tsunami-stricken Sri Lanka.

The five surgeons and two nurses in the team have treated around 100 local patients Tuesday morning, while the seven experts in the field of infectious-disease have examined the water sources in the town with a population of 15,000.

Most patients were seen being suffered from foot or leg injures due to their rushing fleeing of the tsunami disaster on Dec. 26, which claimed for nearly 30,000 lives across the island nation.

The epidemic specialists said so far no indication clinched that the water had been contaminated.

The team set up its camp at a local Buddhism temple and the monks there offered them two rooms to store their gears being brought here from Beijing.

The group had to accommodate in five make-shift tents on the temple's backyard and the workshop was also cemented there.