77 Indigent Patients Benefit From Eye Care Mission
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COTABATO CITY – The eye care mission of a physician in the Bangsamoro parliament treated 77 more patients, 32 of them afflicted with cataracts and pterygium on Tuesday in an impoverished barangay in Pikit, Cotabato.
The mission and outreach team of Bangsamoro parliament member Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., an ophthalmologist, in Barangay Kabasalan in Pikit was facilitated at the behest of poor Moro beneficiaries, among them members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Municipal officials in Pikit and the barangay chairman in Kabasalan, Gulam Guimbalanan, told reporters that 77 villagers benefitted from the free eye examinations.
Volunteers from the Doctor Shahid M. Sinolinding Deseret Ambulatory Referral Center Foundation Incorporated in Kabacan, Cotabato joined the team of Sinolinding.
“The eye care mission was a big help to us. All of those they treated are from marginalized families,” Guimbalanan said.
The outreach team of Sinolinding, an eye specialist trained in India, had served almost 3,000 patients in a series of medical missions since he was appointed member of the parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) by President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. in August last year.
In an official statement dispatched on Wednesday, Sinolinding’s office here said 32 of the 77 patients in Barangay Kabasalan shall be provided with free pterygium and cataract operation at the Deseret Surgimed Hospital in Kabacan, Cotabato.
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