A team of health workers from the Japanese Red Cross Society is leading a basic medical care unit that opened last Thursday in an area of Mindanao Island wrecked by a violent typhoon in December.
Set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the town of Baganga in Davao Oriental Province, the health care unit is run by seven members, including three nurses and an engineer from Japan.
The others are a German doctor, a Norwegian nurse and a midwife from Hong Kong. Local health workers have also been hired for the operation, which may last at least three months.