PHS CLASS ’65 FOUNDATION

Committee No. 06 : MEDICAL-DENTAL MISSIONS

Chairman :     Mars Morales

Co-chairman : Laurel Perez

Goals and Objectives:

1. To extend the benefits of specialized medical/surgical/dental skills to no less than 1,000 indigent patients where there is a demonstrated acute need for such services;
2. To adopt and support 15 elders afflicted with advance pulmonary tuberculosis;
3. To adopt and support 15 elders with impaired eyesight.

1. Coordinate with barangay chairmen the holding of medical missions in the following barrios and barangays on September 2003: Bo. Cutud, Brgys San Pedro, Sta. Lucia, Del Pilar, San Jose, Lourdes, San Felipe, and San Juan;
2. Coordinate with the City of San Fernando Health Department officials the medical checkp-up and x-ray of 15 elderly indigents suffering from advance pulmonary tuberculosis; turn over the boxes of TB drugs/medicine personally to each patient for dosage covering six months;
3. Coordinate with the City of San Fernando Health Department ophthalmologists the testing/refraction of 15 elderly indigents with impaired eyesight; Give free eyeglasses to each one to allow them to enjoy the advantage of having clear vision. Coordinate with the City of San Fernando Health Department.

In organizing medico-surgical missions, the committee will do the following:

1. Initiate or receive request for missions;
2. Select and schedule places to be serviced;
3. Appoint committee members/team to survey the area in advance;
4. Solicit financial/logistical support from sponsors (e.g. Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, PAGCOR, private companies, agencies, associations, individuals);
5. Recruit team members;
6. Arrange accommodation/transportation for the medical misison team as well as for equipment and supplies;
7. Implement the mission.