INDIGENT patients in need of non-emergency surgery may now register at the outpatient department of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), which will host a Canadian mission that will conduct a 10-day free surgical service early next year.
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Medical center chief Dr. Manuel Factora said the BGHMC Social Service will evaluate and qualify patients who will avail themselves of the surgical program of GO-MED (Greater Outreach Medical/Educational Destinations), a medical outreach group based in Vancouver, Canada.
The visiting team will do laparoscopic and open cholecystectomies, thyroidectomy, hernia repair, mastectomy, ovarian tumor excision, abdominal and vaginal hysterectomies and bilateral tubal ligation from January 30 to February 10.
This will be the third year GO-MED will conduct its mission at the BGHMC since it was founded in 2009, according to Factora.
The group headed by Dr. Peter Blair, a general surgeon who was elected GO-MED president in May last year, had already donated two operating room beds, two anesthesia machines, 30 hospital beds and assorted surgical and medical supplies to the BGHMC.
As in the previous missions, members of the team are expected to be led anew by Blair and nurse Shirley Pinlac-Maas, a native of Baguio and graduate of the BGH School of Nursing and the Baguio City National High School.
Composed of a mission leader, surgical leader, anesthesiology leader, nursing leader, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and support staff and other volunteers, the outreach members will personally shoulder their transport, food and billeting expenses.
GO-MED will also bring in the surgical and medical supplies, together with the medicines, and will donate those unused to BGHMC.
To raise support for the mission, the volunteers sponsor and host dinners, dances, walks and other fund drives. (SunStar / by Ramon Dacawi)
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