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Young aspiring medical students among Guyana Watch Medical Team
While many youths would choose to spend their summer vacation involved in summer activities, Anjali Ghodasara, Kushal Dave, Nikita Mehta, Namrita Mehta, Sunil Reddy, Kavita Dave, and Gary Mana have given a part of their summer to volunteer with the Guyana Watch Medical team.
Nikita said that this is her first year being a part of the team but she looks forward to coming back next year. The aspiring biomedical engineer student said that she used this opportunity to come to Guyana to be exposed to some of the most common illnesses and to have some of the complications explained to her in detail.
Aspiring Medical Students, volunteering with Guyana Watch
She said that it feels extremely heartening to be a part of the Guyana Watch Team and to be able to give medical assistance to Guyanese. They all vowed that they would be returning to Guyana next year to not only be a part of the medical team but to also interact with the Guyanese public with whom they’ve built bonds with upon receiving great hospitality.
Meanwhile, President of the Guyana Watch Team, Tony Yassin, said that the response from the residents of St Cuthbert’s Mission has been tremendous.
He said that 402 persons were seen on Monday at the St. Cuthbert’s Mission Secondary School —107 children, and 179 adults were seen by the general medical doctors and 116 by the dentists.
Yassin explained that the residents of St. Cuthbert’s were very healthy and the majority of them just came to the outreach to get a checkup. He said the outreach in St. Cuthbert’s was the first for his team, and because of the great response there will be another clinic there next year.
He reiterated the need for more dentists for his team and he plans on working toward achieving that. Dr. Janet Kong said this is her first year with the team and that the outreach in St. Cuthbert’s was well received by the residents.
“It was interesting to see the facilities, which were way better than I expected”. She added that for the adults seen, the most common illnesses were high blood pressure and diabetes while the most of children were treated for skin infections.
During its mission here last year the team saw in excess of 2,500 patients with various complaints. The team also dispensed drugs for ailments that included fungal infections, common colds, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Follow up treatment was also given to ten persons who were identified for overseas treatment.
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