BANGKOK, March 14 – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has prepared to dispatch a medical team early Tuesday to help earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, Public Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Paijit Warachit said on Monday.

The team includes Dr Pairote Kruekanchana, Dr Jirapong Supsaowapak, both emergency medicine specialists, and Panchasin Somboon, a nurse specialist. All of them graduated from Japan and speak Japanese fluently, he said.

The group is scheduled to leave Bangkok at 2am Tuesday and arrive at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport at 7am before leaving for tsunami-ravaged areas of Sendai.

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