Russian emergencies ministry rescuers and physicians have flown out for China to help to deal with consequences of the devastating earthquake, the Emergencies Ministry’s information department told Itar-Tass.
An Il-76 transport aircraft overnight flew out from the Ramenskoye airfield, near Moscow, for the city of Chengdu, the administrative centre of the province of Sichuan most severely hit by the disaster.
Aboard the plane are 49 Russian specialists -- an operational group of four people of the Emergencies Ministry, three psychologists of the ministry's urgent psychological aid centre, including its head Yulia Shoigu, 13 physicians and 29 rescuers of the ministry's Tsentrospas advance group.
Another aircraft is planned to leave for China later in the day to transport 38 physicians of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the Russian disaster medicine centre, an airmobile hospital and seven tonnes of medicines to the quake-hit region.
Russian emergencies ministry rescuers and physicians have flown out for China to help to deal with consequences of the devastating earthquake, the Emergencies Ministry’s information department told Itar-Tass.
