When: Saturday, January 30, 12:00 PM start
Where: Haile Plantation Golf and Country Club
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Project Thailand 2010
This past spring a group of doctors, nurses and medical students at the University of Florida traveled to Chiang Rai, Thailand to provide care to orphaned children of the Akha tribe. As students at the University of Florida College of Medicine, we are excited for the chance to return once more to provide medical care to the people of Chiang Rai. We expect this year’s trip to be bigger and better than last year’s as we will be increasing the number of students and faculty who will be making the trek.
This coming March, we will be providing health care to 400 orphaned children of Akha ethnicity. These Akha children are stateless refugees, as they are not recognized as Thai or Chinese citizens. Their only medical care comes from visiting groups. This year will be the fifth year UF physicians have made this volunteer trip, and the second time medical students will join the effort. We will set up clinic, where we will provide free basic medical care, including physicals, immunizations, vitamins, and medications. Last year we were able to create an electronic medical record for each of the children and we will be expanding upon this record during our upcoming trip.
We will also be setting up clinics in the surrounding villages of Chiang Rai and providing care for others within the community. This will require more supplies and organization but will provide us with the opportunity to expand our area of outreach.
Like the UF physicians, we medical students are providing our own funds to travel to Thailand. We are also responsible for raising enough money to assist in covering the cost of supplies, immunizations, and medications. As you can imagine, we have a great challenge ahead of us to raise enough funds to support the plans we have for this year’s trip. We have fundraising projects planned but we also wanted to reach out to our friends and loved ones and open the door for you to support us as well.
Project Thailand represents a tremendous opportunity to serve some underserved children of Thailand. It also provides an unparalleled educational experience for us as medical students interested in international community medicine. To see photos from previous years, please visit http://emergency.med.ufl.edu/community_service.shtml or scroll through last year's blog posts.
This coming March, we will be providing health care to 400 orphaned children of Akha ethnicity. These Akha children are stateless refugees, as they are not recognized as Thai or Chinese citizens. Their only medical care comes from visiting groups. This year will be the fifth year UF physicians have made this volunteer trip, and the second time medical students will join the effort. We will set up clinic, where we will provide free basic medical care, including physicals, immunizations, vitamins, and medications. Last year we were able to create an electronic medical record for each of the children and we will be expanding upon this record during our upcoming trip.
We will also be setting up clinics in the surrounding villages of Chiang Rai and providing care for others within the community. This will require more supplies and organization but will provide us with the opportunity to expand our area of outreach.
Like the UF physicians, we medical students are providing our own funds to travel to Thailand. We are also responsible for raising enough money to assist in covering the cost of supplies, immunizations, and medications. As you can imagine, we have a great challenge ahead of us to raise enough funds to support the plans we have for this year’s trip. We have fundraising projects planned but we also wanted to reach out to our friends and loved ones and open the door for you to support us as well.
Project Thailand represents a tremendous opportunity to serve some underserved children of Thailand. It also provides an unparalleled educational experience for us as medical students interested in international community medicine. To see photos from previous years, please visit http://emergency.med.ufl.edu/community_service.shtml or scroll through last year's blog posts.
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