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Volunteers of Claros
Foundation, a Spanish medical non-profit organisation, are currently at the
Serekunda Central Hospital in Kanifing to help patients who are in need of a
variety of surgical operations at no cost.
At a reception ceremony
held recently at the hospital’s conference hall, officials of the hospital
affirmed that the intervention of the Claros Foundation was crucial in that
it had enabled patients who were
not able to travel abroad for certain
medical treatments due to high costs to be treated right here in the country
for free.
Claros Foundation exists
to fight against deafness, promoting all types of activities which aid its
diagnosis and treatment (medical, surgical and/or prosthesic). It also offers
humanitarian help to emergent countries to fight facial defects as well as
facial tumours in addition to promoting and offering grants to young doctors to
be trained in the specialty of otorhinolaryngology as well as head and neck
surgery at Clínica Clarós, Barcelona. Furthermore, it promotes and sponsors the
teaching of the specialties of otorhinolaryngology, speech therapy, odontology,
face and neck surgery as well as facial plastic surgery.
According to the Chief
executive Officer of the Serekunda Central Hospital, Baba Njie, Claros medical
volunteers visited The Gambia last year and performed 54 successful operations.
He added: “When they
came last year, the took a huge chunk of the patients on the waiting list and
provided them with a medical aid for free, which they appreciated and they are
hoping for more commitment this time around. So far, this time[around], they
have carried out a total of 16 surgeries in just two days of their visit, and
the hospital is hoping that more [patients] will be operated [upon during their
stay]. We want the team to be visiting this country every year on a longer stay
basis.”
The team leader of
Claros Foundation, Pedro Claros, assured the management of the hospital that
they are ready to keep coming to The Gambia provided “all logistics are met”,
adding that “We are very impressed with the outcome of our activities last year
and are hopeful of doing more this year”.
By Abdoulie Nget
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