PLA is to send a peacekeeping medical team to Liberia　　

　　51 medical staff from a medical unit serving troops stationed in southeastern China are going to be sent to Liberia to be members of the U.N. peacekeeping medical team to provide medical treatment, medical rescue and epidemic prevention to the U.N. peacekeeping forces there.

　　On November 16, leaders from the Medical Service Department of the General Logistics Department of the PLA made an special trip to Fuzhou, Fujian Province, to inform the staff of the order to go to Liberia for medical service. The Fuzhou General Hospital under the Nanjing Military Area Command is ordered to form the team. According to the hospital authority, the 51-staff team is made up of 39 men and 12 women, including 4 Doctor's degree holders and 10 Master's degree holders and they are all backbone experts of the hospital. They will leave for Liberia around the Spring Festival of 2004 after two months of intensive training.

　　By Mo Yinglong and Wan Chusheng

　　(November 18, PLA Daily)