Page 8 - Town of Newcomb Newsletter - May/June 2021
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Health Center News
Thank You!!!
To all those who donated, cooked, served or attended the fund-
raiser for our Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic.
Every year for the past 23 years, a group of about 25 dedicated
Health Care Providers, Nurses and Volunteers travel to the DR
to care for very needy people in this small village (of about
7,000) called Gauthier. For most people there, it is the only
health care they receive each year. Some people are able to
see a doctor there for free, but have no money to buy their
medicine.
Our group provides care and enough blood pressure and diabe-
tes medicine for over a thousand people each year.
Unfortunately, due to COVID 19, we were not able to travel
there this year. Concerned that their medicine would run out
and people had no means to buy more, we went to work organ-
izing Dominican Doctors, townspeople, and the Episcopal Dio-
cese we work through.
Through multiple Zoom meetings and your generous donations,
we were able to hire 5 Dominican Doctors to do home visits last
week on our most needy people there. The money raised will
pay for the Doctors to see them every 3 months and cover their
pay, PPE and the medicines they need until we can go back next
year.
Thank you all so much and may God Bless You!
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