NGO says treated 600 in medical outreach at Mahaicony

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Part of the team: From left, Cyle Kroft, Medical Director,HAP; Angel Hernandez, Logistics Coordinator, HAP; Maqsood Mansoor, Humanity First; Matthew Dibble, outgoing Director, HAP; Robert Verdusco, outgoing HAP Coordinator; Sharir Chan, Chief Operations Officer, Guyana Medical Relief and Patrick Finnegan incoming HAP director.
Part of the team: From left, Cyle Kroft, Medical Director,HAP; Angel Hernandez, Logistics Coordinator, HAP; Maqsood Mansoor, Humanity First; Matthew Dibble, outgoing Director, HAP; Robert Verdusco, outgoing HAP Coordinator; Sharir Chan, Chief Operations Officer, Guyana Medical Relief and Patrick Finnegan incoming HAP director.

The Guyana Medical Relief (GMR), a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, California says it saw 600 patients in its outreach at Mahaicony on Sunday.

A statement from the group yesterday said it has embarked on a series of outreaches in the country.

The six-hour outreach in Mahaicony had catered for 300 patients but ended up seeing double that number.

Among the services offered were dental filling, cleaning and extractions, eye testing by Da Silva Optical, prostate cancer screenings, courtesy discounts provided by Woodlands Hospital, HIV screening through the National AIDS Programme Secretariat, breast cancer screenings and blood pressure and blood sugar screenings. The release said that many had to be turned back because of time constraints.