From July 17th to 27th, a group of volunteer doctors from the Good Samaritan Medical Ministry offered free medical checkups and treatment to more than 3,000 poor patients in six districts and towns of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.
The doctors, mostly Vietnamese residents in the US, operated on 90 patients who suffered with digestion, eye, aesthetic, obstetric, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
The programme, with a budget of more than US$500,000, bore all expenses for surgeries, bed and meals.
The group also transferred medical technology to local doctors and gave modern equipment used in the programme to the provincial general hospital./.