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Article: Fil-Am doctors hold medical mission in Sorsogon.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- January 23, 2009
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By Danny O. Calleja SORSOGON CITY, Jan. 23 (PNA) --- A 61-man team of Filipino-American medical practitioners based in Houston, Texas treated thousands of patients during a three-day medical and surgical mission held here and in Pilar, Sorsogon that ended Thursday.
The team arrived here with a truckload of medicines and medical equipment last Tuesday and ended the mission yesterday after treating some 5,000 patients from all over the province who trooped to the mission venues to avail of the free treatments and medicines.
Outpatients that came were treated inside the Sorsogon State College campus while those who need confinement like surgical patients ...