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Guyana Watch off to tremendous start
The 21st batch of the Guyana Watch medical team yesterday launched its 2013 campaign at Patentia on the West Bank of Demerara.
The team of medical experts, including doctors and nurses from the United States of America and Guyana treated a total of 317 persons and also distributed drugs for several ailments.
The doctors and local volunteers yesterday in front of the Patentia Secondary School
The Guyana Watch team headed by US-based Guyanese businessman Tony Yassin has over the years, managed to attract specialist medical professionals to come to Guyana to provide free medical care for Guyanese.
This year 22 persons have come to Guyana and they are supported by 10 local volunteers.
Among the persons seen yesterday were 80 were children and 55 persons who saw visiting dentists.
This clinic was the team’s first of six to be held countrywide this year. Today, the team will be visiting the Timehri Primary School.
In 1998, Guyana Watch Inc. (GWI) brought in an Ophthalmology team and completed 58 cataract surgeries in Guyana. It has since sponsored many corrective and other eye surgeries in Guyana and overseas.
In Education, it built a state-of-the art 32-computer work station laboratory at the University of Guyana, Berbice Campus along with computer laboratories in some schools.
Two of the doctors attending to patients yesterday
Over the last four years, the organization began to pay for the air travel and hotel stay for the medical doctors.
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