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Article: India sends medicines, army medical personnel to Myanmar.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- May 17, 2008
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India sends medicines, army medical personnel to Myanmar
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) -- Responding to a request by the Myanmarese authorities, India today sent a team of 50 army medical personnel and a fresh planeload of medicines to the cyclone-battered country.
An IAF IL-76 medium-haul transport aircraft left here for Yangon carrying a 50-member Indian army medical team to carry out relief work in the worst-affected Irrawady valley, officials said here.
The team comprising doctors and paramedics is carrying six tonnes of medicines and surgical equipment to treat patients in the affected areas, they said.
India is only ...