Article: India sends medicines, army medical personnel to Myanmar.

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.

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