The Chinese medical team arrived in the Indonesian town of Bantul Monday and began to set up a field hospital to give medical treatment for injured people in the area worst hit by the devastating earthquake over the weekend.

 

Six tents were erected in the area by the 40-member team, comprising mostly members of the China International Search and Rescue Team.

 

The makeshift hospital was set up in a high school complex in the southern part of Yogyakarta, some 450 km east of Jakarta.

 

"The hospital can accommodate 10 people with serious injuries since we have ten beds here and around 300 patients with light injuries for first aid," said Dr. Hou Xike, a member of the medical team.

 

A tent was especially designed for a laboratory equipped with blood and urine test apparatuses and a portable scanner machine to check internal organs.

 

"We will let the United Nations know about the hospital's presence here," said Huang Jianfa, deputy chief of the China International Search and Rescue Team.

 

The 59-year-old Kamijem was the first patient for the Chinese team.

 

"My back, it's very painful," she told the paramedics carrying her out of an ambulance.

 

Her son in-law said Kamijem was hit by debris when her house collapsed during Saturday's magnitude 5.9 earthquake, which hit Yogyakarta and parts of Central Java province and has killed over 5,100 people.

 

(Xinhua News Agency May 30, 2006)