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Written by CTV3 Publisher Sunday, 05 February 2012 02:45

Education

Yesterday a team of Dental and Medical experts from Canada arrived in Belize and headed straight to Orange Walk to offer a number of services to residents of the community. The team, which forms part of a Christian Ministry, is stationed at the Northern Regional Hospital and today when we paid them a visit we found them hard at work.

Dr. Gordon Womak, Pediatric Dentist

“We are here to serve the Belizean people, we wanted to come down and provide dental services for the community myself and Dr. Andrew Smith and a team of four other are here to see as many patience as we can, we are hoping to see fifty to sixty a day and we would like to take care of tooth pain, extraction, cleaning, fillings whatever they may need we are here for you.  Can benefit the people from first of all getting him out of pain for those people that have toothaches that are hurting them get rid of infection, we hope to educate them on how to take care of their teeth and so they can have all their teeth when they get older.”

Dr. Richard Devore is the head of the surgical team. Today when he spoke to him he told us about some of the illnesses that the team will be treating and some of the patients that they have seen.

Dr. Richard Devore, head of surgical team

“This is our first day here, we come here every year in February and we are seeing several hundred patients and I am ear, nose and throat specialist so we see problems of the ears like chronic infections, nasal obstructions, children who snore with big tancels and recurrent sore throats and already today we have seen a lot of children with enlarge tansels and we are going to take out their tansels so that they can breathe better at night and also some adults with nasal obstructions, maybe their nose is blocked or crooked we can fix that for them also.”

The team brought along all the necessary equipment to conduct surgical procedures which will be offered to patients suffering from respiratory, ear and throat complications as well as those in need of plastic surgery.

Dr. Richard Devore, head of surgical team

“There’s two parts to this trip, we have the ear, nose and throat part this week and then next week there is going to be a plastic surgery group that follow us and those are our friends, so they specifically want to see Cliffs and Clift pallet children, patients who have burns and scares and need cosmetic procedures, for us we are looking for children and adults with tumors in the neck, tumors in the spit glands, problems with the nose, chronic ear infections and things like that, thyroid problems but we focus on shoulders and that’s the surgery that we are going to be doing this week and then next week to get the word out we are looking for cleft lip and cleft pallet children for next week. We’re here as a Christian ministry and we donate our time and our efforts and we are here hopefully to show God’s love in a very practicable way and it does improve the health of the people we see and we hope that they are benefitting them in both a physical way and a spiritual way that somebody loves them, not only their family but somebody in another country and we as Americans we are very sensitive to that we want to help and so we are here first as Christians and second as Americans and we hope to improve the health in us and improve their spiritual livelihood that they know that someone loves them.”

It is to our understanding that all members of the team financed their own trip to Belize and that all the equipment being used was obtained through kind donations. The aim of the doctors is to provide health care for the less fortunate.

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