The China International Search and Rescue Team in Haiti pose for a group photo with CRI's deputy director-general Wang Minghua, during their visit to CRI on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. The 50-member team returned to Beijing Wednesday after completing their mission in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. The rescue team was replaced by a 40-member medical team that arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

The medical staff of the China International Search and Rescue Team visited China Radio International after they arrived in Beijing Wednesday from a 15-day rescue mission in Haiti.

China dispatched a 50-member rescue team, consisting of search and rescue personnel, medical staff and three sniffer dogs just hours after the 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Caribbean country on Jan. 12. They started work as soon as they arrived in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti.

Huang Jianfa, head of the team, said they had retrieved more than 20 bodies and gave medical assistance to about 2,500 injured people, 500 of whom were in serious condition.

China's second rescue team, made up of 40 staffers who will offer medical care and help with the prevention of epidemics, arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday.

Meantime, the Chinese government has sent its second batch of disaster relief materials worth about 25 million yuan ($3 million) to Haiti.

More than 200,000 people are believed to have been killed in the quake, and the poor situation in the country hampered the rescue efforts.