The Chinese government’s eighth shipment of emergency humanitarian aid arrived on Tuesday at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar, following the devastation caused by a 7.9-magnitude earthquake on March 28.
The relief consignment comprises 24,600 orthopedic bone plates, 132,000 bone screws, 4,526 intramedullary nails, 30 surgical tool kits, 1 million bottles of injectable sodium penicillin, 400,000 bottles of metronidazole tablets, 90,000 boxes of cefradine capsules, 300 boxes of medical disinfectant tablets, and 2,000 containers of iodine cotton swabs.
According to Myanmar’s official figures as of April 18, the earthquake resulted in 3,726 deaths, 5,105 injuries, and 129 people still missing.
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