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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
American docs arrive for medical mission
By Erwin Ambo S. Delilan
AN 11-MAN medical team from Chicago arrived Monday in Bacolod City for a four-day MassKara medical mission.
Headed By Dr. Angela Wilks, a known neonatalgist from Chicago Windy City Medical Center in Illinois, USA, the group will first conduct training and seminar to all local doctors in Bacolod at the Riverside Medical Center, from Oct.5 to 8.
Topics will focus on Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), including pediatrics and ob-gyne.
In the afternoon of Oct. 8, the team will hold a free medical consultation and giving of free medicines to indigent patients from the city's coastal barangays, at the Bacolod City Health compound.
Wilks, in an interview with Sun.Star Bacolod said they chose Bacolod for this year's mission in gratitude to Filipino nurses serving their hospital in Chicago.
Most of these Filipino nurses are from Bacolod, Wilks said.
"Filipino nurses are very dedicated and committed people. (This is) why we are paying them back," Wilks said.
She also said that cases of neonatal death becomes alarming not only in the Philippines but also in other parts of the world especially in India.
In Negros Occidental, provincial health officer Dr. Luisa Efren, earlier said that neonatal deaths this year showed a very rapid increase.
Health officials blamed the practice of "hilot," for the rise in neonatal cases in the province.
"We are here because we want to share the latest information, hands-on training and modern methods in averting neo-natal death," said Wilks.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia thanked the group saying, the "people of Bacolod will really benefit from them."
Also composing the medical team are Drs. Gail Allen, head for Pediatric Department and Emergency Room; Linda Powell and Eddie Swift, both from the OB-Gyne Department.
The nurses are Bleinda Cusic from Peru, Dennise Swift from Chicago and Filipino nurses Estrella Norido, Purisima Tapalla, Aurora Mendez and Angie and Sam del Leon.
(October 26, 2004 issue)
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