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 illnesses, because of a volunteer corps of docs and nurses from Help Jamaica Medical Mission.
The New Jersey-based group will likely be going to the island on its annual mission from September 4 to 16.
In the course of the go to, the volunteer well being care specialists from the New York- New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state space will even be screening residents of Kingston, St Thomas, St Catherine, Clarendon, Manchester, and Westmoreland for sickle cell and quite a lot of different situations.
“Now we have been saving lives, making folks see once more and turn out to be 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 2010 when his group carried out its inaugural mission to the island, the volunteers have served some 562,000 sufferers, Dr. Clarke went on to state.
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The Medical Mission president provided that on its newest mission, final 12 months, the group of medical practitioners noticed over 4,500 sufferers and donated medicals valued at US$155,000.
In response to Dr. Clarke, the Mission has been devoted to offering free, high-quality healthcare companies to these in determined want, having served hundreds of Jamaicans through the years.
New Jersey Medical Mission has spent some US$6 million to ship medical companies to the underserved in Jamaica, he stated. Elaborating, he stated the latest boat experience fundraiser had introduced in simply over US$70,000, which is able to go in the direction of the medical mission to Jamaica this coming September.
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