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Thursday, November 24, 2005
10-day free surgery at hospital
THE Benguet General Hospital (BGH) is conducting free surgical operations to indigent constituents in the province.
The medical mission was made possible by a foreign team tapped by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to conduct the activity free from charge in line with their 125th anniversary of congregation in Baguio and Benguet.
The team is composed of six Australian medical professionals. Two of them were surgeons, two anesthesiologists and two nurses, who were invited to do cleft lift and cleft palate operations on Benguet residents who could not afford it.
The surgical mission started November 21 and will end by December 1. It is the fourth medical outreach held at the hospital this year.
BGH administrator and Provincial Health officer Esteban Piok said 95 patients have registered for the surgical operations.
Piok said the surgeons would prioritize those who will be undergoing the surgical operation. Aside from Benguet clients, he said there are also patients from Kalinga and Bataan provinces.
The foreign doctors, Piok said, will also be conducting operations on burn complications.
If not for free, patients who wish to undergo the surgery would have to pay about P15,000 for the professional fee of a doctor alone, he said. (JC)
(November 24, 2005 issue)
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