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DEVELOPMENT REPORT
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Indian Medical Camp
By Shelley Gollust
Broadcast: March 11, 2002
This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report.
Doctors recently treated more than twenty-thousand people at a special medical
camp in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The medical camp takes place during
the month of January in a hospital that is supported by the organization in the village
of Bidada. A non-profit organization called the Bidada Sarvodaya Trust organizes it
each year.
Doctors from India and the United1 States treat the patients. The patients are from
more than one-thousand poor villages in the area of Kutch. Vijay Chheda is one of
the organizers2 of the medical camp. He says the patients receive the best medical
care at the camp for free.
Mister3 Chheda says that this year doctors treated the patients for more than twenty diseases4 and medical
problems. Doctors performed more than seven-hundred operations during the camp. Almost two-hundred patients
with the most serious problems were sent to hospitals in the city of Bombay, also known5 as Mumbai
Many patients at the medical camp were suffering from physical or mental problems caused by a severe6
earthquake that shook the area in January, Two-Thousand -One. This year, the hospital started a center for people
who were seriously injured7 in the earthquake. For example, the center provides man-made8 legs for people whose
legs were destroyed. The government of Gujarat is providing money and training for this center.
The Bidada medical camp began twenty-eight years ago. At first, doctors treated only patients with eye diseases.
Then the organizers expanded the camp to help people with other diseases. Organizers say the medical camp has
treated more than two -million people since it began.
People in India, the United States and other countries provide the money to operate the medical camp. More than
fifty doctors from the United States were part of the program this year. The doctors and other people provide
their services without being paid.
Many doctors who serve in the camp were born in Kutch and now are living in the United States. Some of them
have been returning to volunteer at the camp each year for many years. The doctors from the United States also
teach local Indian doctors the most modern medical techniques.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Shelley Gollust. This is Bill White.
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