Medical staff treat survivors

Medical staff from the People's Liberation Army and armed police are providing large-scale assistance in Yushu by transporting advanced mobile hospitals to the region.

A field hospital from the Beijing Military Garrison has been built on a horse race track field in Yushu. At this facility, medical workers are treating quake survivors.

The hospital has 200 beds and two intensive care units and is equipped with its own water and power supply systems. It can handle four hundred patients and perform 80 surgical operations per day.

Medical staff from the People's Liberation Army and armed police are providing large- scale assistance in Yushu by transporting advanced mobile hospitals to the region.

Another field hospital built by the Jinan Military Garrison is located at the Yushu Stadium. It serves as the Yushu prefecture's central hospital. A survivor suffering from critical injuries was the hospital's first patient.

Yushu quake survivor said, "We have lived in a tent ever since the quake, but now I've been brought to a hospital. The conditions are very good here. I want to thank the People's Liberation Army."

Another patient, a pregnant woman who has been suffering from an appendicitis, was successfully treated at the mobile hospital.

Currently, more than 12 hundred military medical personnel from the PLA, and Armed Police are fighting on the front lines to save more lives.