Taiwanese disaster medical aid team arrives in quake-hit Japan town

KANAZAWA (Japan) (Bernama-CNA): A Taiwanese medical team arrived in the Japanese town of Suzu late Thursday night to join the disaster relief efforts, in the wake of a powerful earthquake that struck the western coast of the country on Jan 1, killing scores of people and leaving many others trapped in the rubble of toppled buildings.

The four-member team from the Taiwan Development Association for Disaster Medical Teams (TDADMT) was the first Taiwanese non-governmental organisation to arrive in Suzu, a coastal town of just over 5,000 residences, near the epicentre of the magnitude 7.6 quake, Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) reported according to TDADMT Deputy Secretary-General Wang Wei-te.