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Dental clinic offers free service, cash to Blind Society
An East Bank Demerara dental clinic says it is making it a mission to target the vulnerable in society.
The staffers of the dental clinic and the members of the Blind Society on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, 25 members of the Guyana Society for the Blind visited the Peter’s Hall offices of C. Persaud Dental Lab and Clinic.
Seven of them were children.
“For the past few years, since 2013, we have been offering free services to the Blind Society. It is part of our social programme,” explained Cobeer Persaud, head of the clinic.
Among other things, the members of the society were given general checkups, cleaning and polishing and free dentures.
Wife of the businessman, Sandra Persaud, hands over the cheque to Theresa Pemberton, a representative of the Blind Society.
“We also made a cash donation of $200, 000,” he disclosed.
Collecting the cheque on behalf of the society was Theresa Pemberton, from Sandra Persaud, wife of the dental technician.
According to Persaud, he is targeting The Palms, home for senior citizens and the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre next.
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