Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accompanied by his wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, the SAC Joint Secretary and his wife, council members, Union ministers, the Chief Minister of Mandalay Region, and senior Tatmadaw officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, yesterday afternoon met rescue teams from India, China, Russia and Belarus which are conducting rescue and relief operations in Mandalay and spoke words of appreciation.
At the 60 Parachute Field Hospital of the Indian Armed Forces in the old airport of Chanmyathazi Township, team leader Lt-Col Jagneet Gill and officials conducted the Senior General round the hospital and explained how to provide medical treatment. The Senior General, his wife and party comforted patients and presented foodstuffs.
The Senior General spoke words of thanks to the rescuers for their rescue and relief operations and medical treatments. The Senior General and his wife presented gifts and a fruit basket to the medical teams of the Indian Armed Forces. The leader of the team accepted them and presented gifts.
The Senior General signed the guest book of the 60 Parachute Field Hospital.
In the meeting with China’s Search and Rescue team which opened its camp in front of Mingala Mandalay Hotel, the Senior General heard the clarification on rescue and relief operations by team leader Mr Kyauk Me.
In his response, the Senior General expressed his thanks to the Chinese squad for its efforts in Myanmar. China and Myanmar are inseparable neighbouring and friendly countries, and they will continue to cooperate closely. The Chinese team is expected to share the disaster relief experience gained in Myanmar, and Myanmar will take lessons from the current events to continue conducting research and preparedness measures for future natural disasters. The Senior General then cordially greeted members of the Chinese Search and Rescue team.
The Senior General and his wife presented gifts and a fruit basket to the leader of the Chinese team. The leader said he believes and prays Myanmar will be able to overcome the losses caused by the current earthquake in the best possible way, and return to normalcy as soon as possible under the leadership of the Prime Minister.
At Mandalarthiri Stadium, the Senior General cordially greeted members of the rescue, relief and medical team of the Russian Federation led by Major General Sergey Voroutsov. The team is carrying out rescue, relief and medical treatment. The Senior General presented gifts and a fruit basket to the team leader. The Senior General also spoke words of gratitude to the Belarus rescue team led by Col Eagle for their rescue and relief operations. The Senior General presented gifts and a fruit basket to the Belarusian team.
On arrival at Maha Muni Buddha Image, the Senior General inspected the falls of jewellery items and the diamond orb and the damage to ancient mural paintings in the incident of the powerful earthquake and gave necessary guidance to officials.
He viewed round keeping of ancient Pitakat treatises in the Maha Muni Pitakat chamber and ancient bronze statues in the bronze statue museum. He instructed officials to soonest repair the damaged parts and preserve them.
The Senior General looked into the damage to the Maha Muni Buddha Image and religious buildings. After hearing the reports of officials, the Senior General instructed officials to systematically repair the damaged works in their original states, carefully demolish dangerous buildings and repair them in sections.
The Senior General viewed the clearing of debris by Tatmadaw members and volunteers and presented cash awards to them.
The Senior General flew over Mandalay and Kyaukse to view round loss and damage in the earthquake.
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