A medical team organized by a local non-governmental organization (NGO) said that it is to provide free treatment and medicine to about 2,000 people in Cambodia on a six-day trip.
The 51-member team — comprising 33 volunteers, seven nurses, five dentists, three doctors and three pharmacists — would run free clinics in three locations in Siem Reap Province, Formosa Budding Hope Organization chief executive officer Sally Yu (余慈薰) said.
The team is scheduled to depart for Cambodia today and return to Taiwan on Monday next week, but because the three locations are in remote areas, a significant amount of time would be spent traveling, leaving the team with only three days to provide clinic services, Yu said.
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“Their daily lives are full of inconveniences, but the more inconveniences they have, the more we need to reach out to them,” she said, referring to Cambodians living in remote areas.
Despite the difficulties of providing services to difficult-to-access communities, Yu said that about 2,000 people would receive medical or dental treatment provided by the team.
The NGO has prepared approximately 70 types of commonly used medicine in a short time with assistance provided by the Federation of Taiwan Pharmacists’ Associations, she said.
Association president Huang Chin-shun (黃金舜) said that it collaborated with four pharmaceutical companies to sponsor the medical team by donating medications, including antibiotics and ointments, as well as drugs for chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
The donation also marks the association’s first medical donation to benefit people overseas since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, Huang said.
Formosa Budding Hope Organization was established in 2010 by “a group of friends passionate about Cambodia,” and has already helped 47,679 people, the NGO’s official Web site said.
“For the next 10, 20 and even 50 years, we will strive to spread the love and kindness of Taiwanese in Cambodia and in rural areas of Taiwan,” the NGO said in a recent statement.
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