US based Filipino
nurses to conduct surgical, medical and dental missions in Southern
Leyte
By ES
GORNE, PIA Southern Leyte
February 10, 2011
MAASIN CITY –
It will be almost a year ahead but preparations for the surgical,
medical and dental missions in Southern Leyte is underway.
About 60 medical volunteers
based in Washington D.C., USA have signified to actively participate
in the forthcoming missions on January 2012 this early, Mrs. Luz V.
Mercado, the better half of Congressman Roger G. Mercado disclosed in
an interview with PIA Wednesday.
Mercado reported that Ms.
Alice Andam, president of the Philippine Nurses Association
Metropolitan Washington D.C., Inc personally came to the province and
laid the groundworks such as the hotel accommodations, hospital
facilities that they will need during the week-long missions.
She further said that the
group targeted to reach out to some 4,000 patients during the missions
and provide free medicines, space at the hospital, as well where Ms.
Andam had already conferred with the provincial medical officer, Dr.
Joselito Trumata of the Salvacion Oppus Yniguez Memorial Provincial
Hospital (SOYMPH) and division heads.
Mrs. Mercado further said
that mission will facilitate for the treatments of cataract, abdominal
cases, thyroidectomy, hernioplasty, lumpectomy, hysterectomy, dental
cases, among other health problems.
The gigantic undertaking
shall be sponsored by Congressman Roger G. Mercado and the Limasawa
Development Foundation (LIDEF) based in Maasin City, she added.
Last year, both Cong.
Mercado and the LIDEF sponsored a surgical and medical mission in the
city where thousands of the constituents gladly availed of the much
needed medical treatments which become a possible dream for them thru
the kind-hearted medical doctors and nurses, who volunteered to such a
noble cause all the way from Manila.
