Jordan has sent doctors and humanitarian aid to Maldives to assist the tsunami-hit island, the Jordan Times reported Friday.
Two aircraft laden with medicines, humanitarian aid and a team consisting of 27 doctors and technicians left the kingdom Thursday night for the Asian country.
The aid, valued at US$300,000, includes 17 tons of relief supplies and a mobile operation room, medicaments, surgical supplies, foodstuff, tents, blankets and other equipment.
This is the first of a series of relief measures by Jordan to help victims of the disaster that hit southeast Asia, the report said.
Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization Secretary General Abdul Salam Abbadi said a humanitarian aid, valued at US$420,000, will be sent on Friday to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
More than 120,000 people have been killed in powerful tsunamis, triggered by an underwater earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26.