NEW JERSEY – Residents in six Jamaican parishes are to get free screenings for coronary heart illness, most cancers, prostate illness, psychological well being points, diabetes and sexually-transmitted illness, due to a volunteer corps of docs and nurses from Assist Jamaica Medical Mission.
The New Jersey-based group will probably be going to the island on its annual mission September 4 to 16.
Throughout the go to, the volunteer well being care specialists from the New York- New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state space may even be screening residents of Kingston, St Thomas, St Catherine, Clarendon, Manchester and Westmoreland for sickle cell and number of different situations.
L-R: Claudette Powell, former President of the New York Jamaica Nurses Group, Dr. Robert Clarke – President of Assist Jamaica Medical Mission and Celia Ogilvie – Communication Director of Assist Jamaica Medical Mission. | (PHOTO: Derrick Scott)
“We now have been saving lives, making folks see once more and turn into more healthy, due to our yearly medical mission to Jamaica,” defined Assist Jamaica Medical Mission president Dr. Robert Clarke in an summary he gave at his nonprofit group’s annual Black and White Elegant Boat Cruise, aboard the ‘Cornucopia Majesty’ in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on June 29.
Altogether, since its inaugural mission to the island 2010 the volunteers have served some 562,000 sufferers.
On its 2023 mission, they noticed over 4,500 sufferers. Better of all, they donated medicals valued at US$155,000.
In response to Dr. Clarke, the Mission has been devoted to offering free, high-quality healthcare providers to these in determined want. We’ve served hundreds of Jamaicans over time.
New Jersey Medical Mission has spent some US$6 million to ship medical providers to the underserved in Jamaica, he stated. Elaborating, he stated the latest boat experience fundraiser had introduced in simply over US$70,000. Thos funds will go in direction of the medical mission to Jamaica this coming September.
