A Pakistani mobile field hospital with 28 doctors and paramedical staff will arrive in Lanzhou of northwest China's Gansu Province on Tuesday to help with the earthquake relief.

Abdul Salik Khan, Charge d'Affaires of the Pakistani Embassy in China, told reporters at a press briefing here on Monday that a convoy of 16 trucks carrying 6,000 tents left Islamabad for Kashgar of China on May 21.

In addition to supplies already sent, 4,000 tents were being airlifted by Chinese authorities from Karachi. Pakistan had also decided to donate another 10,000 tents to China, making 22,000 tents in total. The Pakistan Red Crescent Society also donated US$50,000 to the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, Khan said.

He gave an account of the relief assistance provided that included the dispatch of four C-130 planes carrying 500 blankets, 780 tents, 1,000 plastic mats, 3 metric tons of mineral water and 4 metric tons of medicine. These materials were sent to Chengdu in the southwestern Sichuan Province and Lanzhou.

The Pakistan Embassy to China was also organizing a fundraising bazaar for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake on Saturday, the wife of Taranum Bashir, Ambassador to China, said.

(Xinhua News Agency May 28, 2008)