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Article: PGMA orders NDCC to send RP medical team to China.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- May 14, 2008
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MANILA, May 13 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) to send a Philippine medical team to China to help the victims of the strong earthquake that has killed some 10,000 people in central China.
Nag-utos ang ating Pangulo na magpadala ng medical team ang NDCC, Deputy Spokesperson Anthony Golez said.
He added that the lead agency in the medical mission just like the medical team formed and readied for Myanmar -- would be the Department of Health (DOH).
Golez said the DOH will meet with representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), and the Armed Forces of the ...