Thursday, August 10, 2006
A team of doctors, medical and civil affairs professionals, from the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa lately completed a two-week medical civic action plan here that visited four villages and treated more than 3,300 patients.
The team worked with local medical officials and non-governmental agencies, providing over $44,000 value of medications and treatments to the residents of Mpeketoni, Faza, Bargoni, Mokowe and their surrounding communities. All medication was purchased close by and surplus medications were dispersed among the clinics that participated.
The MEDCAP has "helped us a lot," said Ahmed Kassim, public health officer, who works at the Faza clinic. Kassim worked with the CA team to systematize the MEDCAP on the island of Pate and helped get the word out to the residents through word of mouth and through the local mosques.
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