Open for business, six medical members from the Farah Hospital including a doctor, a surgeon, nurses, a pharmacist and a dentist, with the support of Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) medical team, Army 82nd Airborne medics and members of the Marine Corps Special Operations Command, are ready to begin seeing patients during a Village Medical Outreach Program (VMOP), held Dec. 13, 2009, in Shewan, Afghanistan. There is a free clinic in Shewan, but this is the first time a VMOP has been conducted in the village which brought many experienced doctors from the closest hospital a


Open for business, six medical members from the Farah Hospital including a doctor, a surgeon, nurses, a pharmacist and a dentist, with the support of Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) medical team, Army 82nd Airborne medics and members of the Marine Corps Special Operations Command, are ready to begin seeing patients during a Village Medical Outreach Program (VMOP), held Dec. 13, 2009, in Shewan, Afghanistan. There is a free clinic in Shewan, but this is the first time a VMOP has been conducted in the village which brought many experienced doctors from the closest hospital and over $10K worth of medicines and medical supplies. At the end of the day the doctors had seen and treated 1,350 patients including men, women and children.


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