Pretoria — The Central Hospital in the Mozambican capital Maputo, where hundreds of victims of the weekend's horrific train accident are being treated, is in desperate need of strategic medical equipment.

This plea from the health facility came even after a four-men South African team had delivered a consignment of medical supplies today - comprising gloves, surgical knives, surgical clothes, anesthetics, syringes and bandages.

Dr Efraim Kramer, a member of the SA team that facilitated the provision of emergency aid to the neighbouring country, said the conditions at the hospital were fine.

'The hospital only need more medical instruments to be able to conduct necessary operations on the injured,' he said.

'Everything we brought along has been delivered to the hospital,' said Dr Kramer, adding that the two privately-owned ambulances that transported the medical supplies were expected back in the country later this evening.

'The hospital still needs medical instruments such as the metallic plates to help heal broken bones and fractures,' he said.

Dr Kramer hinted that his team would approach some local manufacturers and negotiate with them to donate the equipment.

'We will see what we can do,' affirmed Dr Kramer.

In the wake of the train crash about 40 kilometres north of Maputo, which killed over 200 people and left hundreds seriously injured, the Mozambican authorities appealed to the SA government for assistance with medical supplies.