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In Ludian County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the epicenter of Sunday afternoon’s earthquake, rescue workers and local hospitals are busy responding to the disaster.

Rescuers transfer an injured person in quake-hit Ludian County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 4, 2014. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

Carrying victims from the earthquake, ambulances are rushing the injured to Ludian People’s Hospital. Meanwhile, doctors and nurses are racing¹ against time, working to treat the injured. According to doctors from the hospital, most patients they have received are suffering from head and leg injuries. And those with serious injuries are being transferred to higher-level hospitals.

"When the quake struck, my sister was climbing a tree and was hit by a branch. Her head was injured and he lost consciousness. Because the road was cut off, even the motorcycles couldn’t get in. I carried her on my back and walked for two to three hours. When we heard the sirens from ambulances nearby, we carried her to them immediately."

Ludian People’s Hospital activated² an existing emergency plan as soon as the earthquake struck. With many of the main roads to the county cut off by quake-triggered landslides³, the hospital dispatched a number of medical teams to walk into the quake-hit areas to provide medical treatment.

Medical staff work at a temporary medical station after an earthquake in Longtoushan township of Ludian county, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 4, 2014. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)

"So far, we have dispatched eight medical teams, including 33 members, to go into the area. And seriously injured patients are being sent to Shaotong’s No.1 People’s Hospital and the city’s Chinese Medicine Hospital," Gao Kaojun from Ludian People’s Hospital said.

Medical experts, along with epidemic⁴ prevention personnel and psychological counselors⁵ from Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou, arrived in the county Monday.

According to China’s National Health and Family Planning Committee, a total of 785 medical personnel and 134 recovery vehicles from around the country have been dispatched to the areas hit by the earthquake, and more medical resources are on the way.