A 23-member Japanese medical team wrapped up a two-week rescue and relief operation in quake-hit southwest China's Sichuan Province and returned to Japan on Monday.

The team arrived in Chengdu on May 20 and split into four groups helping the Chinese medical staff in emergency, orthopaedics, intensive care and hemodialysis departments of Huaxi hospital.

The medical team treated 1,355 patients. Before leaving for home, they also donated some of their medical equipment to local hospitals.

The Japanese medical team comprised four doctors, seven nurses, seven pharmacists and five coordinators.

(Xinhua News Agency June 3, 2008)