Volunteers counted and ziplocked pills, visit hospitals and schools. (Photo by Gracie Zheng)
By Gracie Zheng | January 16, 2012
Staff Reporter
www.neontommy.com
A small group of volunteers from St. Mary Medical Center and the non-profit Cambodian Health Professional.
Association of America (CHPAA) packed medicine kits Sunday for a week-long medical mission to Cambodia scheduled for later this month.
Volunteers packaged pills into individual doses, labeled them in English and Khmer, sealed them in boxes and weighed them at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. Medications included antibiotics, vitamins, painkillers, and those for stomach illnesses, diabetes, high blood pressure and parasites.
About 70 volunteers, including 20 physicians and five dentists, are leaving for Cambodia on Jan. 25 to provide free medical and dental care to 5,000 residents of Koh Kong province in southwestern Cambodia and Takeo province in the southeast.
A small group of volunteers from St. Mary Medical Center and the non-profit Cambodian Health Professional.
Association of America (CHPAA) packed medicine kits Sunday for a week-long medical mission to Cambodia scheduled for later this month.
Volunteers packaged pills into individual doses, labeled them in English and Khmer, sealed them in boxes and weighed them at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. Medications included antibiotics, vitamins, painkillers, and those for stomach illnesses, diabetes, high blood pressure and parasites.
About 70 volunteers, including 20 physicians and five dentists, are leaving for Cambodia on Jan. 25 to provide free medical and dental care to 5,000 residents of Koh Kong province in southwestern Cambodia and Takeo province in the southeast.
1 comment:
Good jobs...and good work for helping our people, thank god for continue to bless my cambodia..
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