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Indonesia to send medical team, material aids to China

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Indonesia is going to send a medical team and some material aid to China later this week according to the Director of the Crisis Center of the Health Ministry Rustam Pakaya on Monday.

Pakaya said the medical team will consist on 102 people (comprising 20 specialist doctors, eight doctors, 12 nurses, some other health workers, and a number of volunteers from the military, the police and rescue teams will take part in the humanitarian mission).


The medical team will leave for China on Sunday, Pakaya told reporters after a launching ceremony of the humanitarian assistance to China at the Health Ministry.

"We are now processing their immigration procedure. We expect them to leave on Sunday," he said.

A senior official of the ministry Rahmi Utoro said Indonesia would also send five tons of medicine and five tons of logistics to China on Wednesday.


Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation who has recently got hit by earthquake itself.
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