Sunday, June 26, 2005
2005 - Health: EMAS - MEDICAL AID FOR VIETNAM
MAF-VN is a charitable organization which provides free medical care for the poor in Vietnam. Our goal is twofold: 1- to equip the rural hospitals and local medical clinics with equipment and transfer needed skills so that they can treat the poor in rural areas more efficiently and less costly; 2- to provide first hand medical treatment to the poor patients, especially by doing cataract surgeries.
MAF-VN was formed in 1995 in Vancouver by Father Tien Tran and two ophthalmologists, Dr. David Neima and Dr. Hugh Parsons. We are working under the sponsor of Evangelical Medical Aid Society, a registered charitable organization in Canada. In the past 10 years, we have made more then 10 trips to Vietnam, 1 main trip each year. We have worked in Ninh Binh, Ha Noi, Hue, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Banmethuot, Saigon, Can Tho, Vinh Chau, and Rach Gia. We have equipped the hospitals in Hue, Da Nang, and Nha Trang each with a Phaco machine for cataract surgeries and have funded and done hundred of cataracts for the poor in these areas. We have also worked with the sisters of different convents who run medical clinics to treat thousands of patients under their care.
In the year 2003, we had a team of 20 medical people and volunteers going to Vietnam in August to work in Rach Gia performing 100 cataract surgeries, in Can Tho working with the Providence Sisters to treat poor patient in the far and remote area Cu Lao Gieng, in Bien Hoa with the Dominican Sisters, and in Hue with the Sisters of Visitation and the Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary. In these places we had family doctors working with local doctors doing primary care and giving out needed medication. There was also an eye team treating eye patients and giving out needed glasses.
We are planning another annual trip in the first two weeks of October 2005. This time we will go to Banmethuot, Can Thi, Hue, and Vinh.
For more information regarding our works and organization, please contact Rev. Tien Tran @ frtran@hotmail.com or Dr. David Neima@ dneima@hotmal.com
MAF-VN is a charitable organization which provides free medical care for the poor in Vietnam. Our goal is twofold: 1- to equip the rural hospitals and local medical clinics with equipment and transfer needed skills so that they can treat the poor in rural areas more efficiently and less costly; 2- to provide first hand medical treatment to the poor patients, especially by doing cataract surgeries.
MAF-VN was formed in 1995 in Vancouver by Father Tien Tran and two ophthalmologists, Dr. David Neima and Dr. Hugh Parsons. We are working under the sponsor of Evangelical Medical Aid Society, a registered charitable organization in Canada. In the past 10 years, we have made more then 10 trips to Vietnam, 1 main trip each year. We have worked in Ninh Binh, Ha Noi, Hue, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Banmethuot, Saigon, Can Tho, Vinh Chau, and Rach Gia. We have equipped the hospitals in Hue, Da Nang, and Nha Trang each with a Phaco machine for cataract surgeries and have funded and done hundred of cataracts for the poor in these areas. We have also worked with the sisters of different convents who run medical clinics to treat thousands of patients under their care.
In the year 2003, we had a team of 20 medical people and volunteers going to Vietnam in August to work in Rach Gia performing 100 cataract surgeries, in Can Tho working with the Providence Sisters to treat poor patient in the far and remote area Cu Lao Gieng, in Bien Hoa with the Dominican Sisters, and in Hue with the Sisters of Visitation and the Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary. In these places we had family doctors working with local doctors doing primary care and giving out needed medication. There was also an eye team treating eye patients and giving out needed glasses.
We are planning another annual trip in the first two weeks of October 2005. This time we will go to Banmethuot, Can Thi, Hue, and Vinh.
For more information regarding our works and organization, please contact Rev. Tien Tran @ frtran@hotmail.com or Dr. David Neima@ dneima@hotmal.com
// posted by HelpVN @ 9:12 PM 
