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In
July-August, 2003 the NGO Coalition for the Support of the Refugees
carried out humanitarian medical action in the cities of Batumi, Poti
and Kobuleti.
Following member-organization-Tskhneti Regional policlinic department of
the Abkhazeti Health Ministry, Georgian International Society of
Cardiomyopathy, the Center of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation of
Oncological Patients, Tskhneti Ltd "Tskhumi" of the Tbilisi City Hall, "Kivanis
Club – Tbilisi", and volontere-physicians participated in the Action.
Medical services included:
1. Consultations of internists, cardiologists, pediatrician,
neurologists, gynecologists and oncologists;
2. ECG;
3. Termography of mummalian glaunds;
4. Stomatological procedures (teeth extractions);
5. Clinical-laboratory investigations.
Drugs, prescribed during the actions, were received from the French
Department of the International Organization "Physicians without
Borders", Tskhneti Regional Polyclinic Department of the Abkhazeti
Health Ministry and Women’s Outpatient Clinic and delivered to patients
free of charge.
More, then 662 examinations/tests were carried out in 102 pts in Batumi,
372 pts in Poti, and 147 pts in Kobuleti. Statistical evaluation of the
data obtained revealed pathologies of the circulatory system. With the
highest prevalence of arterial hypertension, then come nervous system
and sensory organ pathologies and then-urea-genital tract infections and
malformations.
Unfortunately, the awareness of the refugees in these cities on the
State guarantees and their rights to obtain medical care is as low, as
in other regions visited.
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