A team including doctors and volunteers from Guyana, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Oxford University loaded onto the RAM Bedford truck, pictured above departing Lethem Public Hospital, to provide HIV testing and education services along with a multi-disciplined medical clinic.
Activities included:
- Village council meeting
- Community-wide 'edutainment' event including video presentations.
- Confidential HIV testing and counceling
- GYN services including pap smears and pelvic exams
- General Medical clinic
- MOH administrative review of village health post.
- 'Marundoi' listening and review session with primary school.
- Documentation of special-needs children.
The RAM women's health team had a full schedule with a couple of 14 hour days at the Lethem clinic and following the Yupukari mission an early departure to the Upper Mazaruni district of Region 7. Using the organization's aircraft and boat assistance from the Kamarang Hospital, they were able to follow up with previously screened women in every community for the prevention of cervical cancer.
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