The first of three medical teams organised following last month's tsunami by a US flight attendants association has arrived in American Samoa.
Ty Tufono from the Seattle-based association says the 30-strong team will be rotated in three 10-day missions to work with the LBJ hospital and the health department.
She says the team will also be bringing supplies.
"All my colleagues have put out donation bins at the airports and just in their collective cities and as the teams come through they'll have them ready for us in Hawaii, and team will pick up donated supplies and that will be our checked luggage, because the team members when they join the trip, they're only allowed to bring one bag."
Ty Tufono says the team includes 10 nurses from Samoa and a doctor.
