Via Xinhua: No major outbreaks of epidemics reported in China quake zone. Excerpt from a long and interesting article:
There have been no major outbreaks of epidemics and other public health hazards in China's quake zone, the Ministry of Health said Saturday.
The ministry said 34,000 medical workers and disease control staff were working in the quake-stricken areas in southwestern Sichuan Province by Friday evening.
As of 20:00 Friday, hospitals in the province had received 116,460 patients including 15,858 severely injured people, according to the Ministry's latest report.
As of 00:00 Saturday, the blood stations across the quake zone kept a total of 3.17 million milliliters of blood, which was sufficient for medical use.
The ministry has also sent 3,059 medical workers including 319 professional epidemic control workers to the quake zone by Friday afternoon. A total of 485 ambulances have arrived in the quake zone from outside Sichuan.
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