A medical camp in Mukalla [Archives:2006/939/Local News]

MUAKALLA, April 18 ) Approximately 1,000 patients are expected to be screened in a medical camp arranged in Ibn Sina General Hospital April 10-May 10 in the city of Mukalla, sources said this week.

This year's camp is being organized by Tayba Welfare Association (TWA) and the Developing Khailat Bougshan Foundation, both non-governmental and non-profit associations dedicated to human services like health, education and social assistance.

A group of Saudi surgeons from King Fahd and King Abdulaziz Hospitals as well as the kingdom's medical faculties are invited to participate in the camp. The Saudi doctors will perform only about 500 highly complicated operations, with minor surgeries being the duty of their Yemeni counterparts.

Organizer Dr. Omer Soheal said one of the camp's aims is to help patients receive inaccessible health care. “We have invited medical experts from the kingdom to perform extremely difficult operations which patients cannot afford,” he noted.

The camp is for all and will handle ear, nose and throat cases, children's surgery and plastic surgery. “Doctors will use in their operations high-tech equipment available in the hospital and others brought from Saudi Arabia,” Soheal added.

The camp is the fourth of its kind being held at Ibn Sina Hospital and the 20th total in Yemen sponsored by TWA. The first camp was conducted in the 1970s. Regarding future medical camps, Soheal said the next one will be in Shehar specializing in eye diseases.

The camp's advantages are restricted not only to patients, but also for local doctors, as it is an opportunity for new graduates of Hadramout University's Faculty of Medicine to practice their knowledge and benefit from the know-how of Saudi specialists.
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