West Pennsylvania docs treat over 1,000 Pangasinenses

By February 3, 2014Governance, News

LINGAYEN–More than a thousand Pangasinenses, both children and adults, were treated of different illnesses by a team from the Philippine American Medical Society (PAMS) in Western Pennsylvania who were in Pangasinan for a five-day medical mission from January 27 to 31 in Urdaneta City and the towns of Asingan, Malasiqui, Tayug and San Manuel.

The number did not include those in two towns covered last January 30-31.

On January 27, the first destination  at the Urdaneta District Hospital gathered some 200 medical and dental patients who were attended to by the doctors and surgeons from PAMs and physicians and nurses from the province’s government hospitals.

Sixteen patients  underwent major operations and 16 others underwent minor surgery.

In Asingan, the second mission site, some 300 patients were treated on January 28 under the medical and dental section while 17 patients availed of the free major surgical operation and 26 patients were treated for minor surgery on their bumps and lumps on various parts of the body like lymphoma, minor tumors and sebaceous cysts among others.

Major operations included surgery on thyroid, hernia, chiroplasm and pelvic lap. The medical group  also cater to patients with cleft lip, gallstones, kidney stones, myoma and goiter.

Malasiqui town was the most served municipality as the mission gathered some 900 patients for medical and dental services and 74 patients for minor surgery and 15 for major operation on January 29.

Malasiqui Mayor Armando Domantay expressed  thanks to PAMS and Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. for bringing the medical mission to his town.

Domantay said the mission contributed greatly to the medical welfare of his townspeople.

The record list at the Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital in Tayug, the fourth mission site, showed some 25 patients set for major cases.

The PAMS were scheduled to go to San Manuel on January 31 to complete their five-day medical mission.

Meanwhile, the Provincial Health Office Chief Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman mobilized the PHO team of the provincial government to assist the medical group.

PAMS composed of physicians, surgeons and medical practitioners from various parts of the United States, was led by its president Dr. Primo Bautista, a Pangasinense who was born in Urdaneta City and raised in Asingan town.

Bautista said the free mission conducted in Pangasinan is part of the group’s 20th anniversary activities and that the mission has been a yearly activity where they have been providing free healthcare services to their “kababayans” back here.

Bautista said the group will be bringing in medical equipment including an anesthesia machine and big equipment needed in the operating room, beds and mattresses, poles and wheelchairs.

Dr. Virgilio Cabigas, an internal medicine practitioner, said he is happy and finds satisfaction because he is able to serve  fellow Filipinos through the mission as according to him,he has been practicing abroad since he finished medical school.

Half of the 90-man team are either doctors, surgeons or physicians and the other half work as nurses and medical service workers.

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