The Government of Japan has dispatched a 23 member medical team to Pakistan for the flood relief operation. This was announced in a statement of the Consulate General of Japan here on Friday. It said that the team consists of doctors and nurses and will provide medical assistance to the flood affected people.
The medical team arrived on Friday and would start working in collaboration with the health centres in the affected areas of southern Punjab. The team is accompanied by doctors specialising in contagious diseases and emergency medical care to treat people suffering from waterborne diseases and acute diarrhoea. It was also pointed out that the government of Japan has so far extended approximately dollars 14.6 million in the form of emergency grant assistance.