“SEE & SMILE PROJECT”
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| "If you ask a patient to pay TShs. 60,000/= for an eye surgery, he will prefer not to be treated and continue to suffer," so says the President of Lions Club of Moshi Kibo. This statement may be true to many people who cannot afford to pay for the high medical or surgical fees. Hence the free for all "SEE & SMILE PROJECT". |
A team of doctors
from Belgium will work alongside with doctors of Mawenzi Hospital of Moshi for
treatment of people suffering from
dental, throat problems and eyes check-up in three districts of
Kilimanjaro Region.
The
ten-days of free medical and surgical treatments is nick-named “ See &
Smile Project”, an NGO from Belgium in coordination with the Lions Club of
Moshi Kibo. Mawenzi Hospital in Moshi
will work hand in hand with the visiting doctors from Belgium. Similar camps
will also be held in Hai and Siha districts hospitals where it is said that due to weather
conditions, there were many cases of eyes ailments.
This
is a second project of eye-sight check-up and treatments after the one held in
Rombo district where 270 people were provided free treatment and 22 others with
complicated problems were operated by the doctors. This project as well was
under the auspices of the Lions Club of Moshi Kibo, one of the most active
Lions club in East Africa.
The
project will take-off from Monday 29th June and end on 8th July, the President
of the club, Lion Inderjit S. Rehal told the MCC Blog.
Twenty-four
doctors from the Belgium NGO “See &
Smile” will provide free services, free medicines and reading glasses to
patients in Kilimanjaro Region
.
Story by Abdul Hai
MCC BLOG
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