Report of Mobile Health Care for Dental, E.N.T and Eye Diseases in Remote Areas of Oudomxay Province, September 2008
A Cooperation between Oudomxay Hospital – Lao Rehabilitation Foundation and Women for World Health Organizations
We knew that Oudomxay province is home to many poor people living in remote areas with limited access to health care. The province’s population of 272,297 (2007) includes 60% Kamu, 25% Lao Loum and 15% Hmong ethnic minorities. The mobile health care for dental, E.N.T and eye diseases project is a cooperation between Oudomxay Hospital and Lao Rehabilitation Foundation, Inc. it is a large mission that combines an ENT doctor, dentists, ophthalmologists and nurses equipped with modern mobile equipment and all necessary medicine to treat E.N.T., dental and eye diseases.
Click here to download the full PDF report of our surgery mission to Oudomxay Province.
The remote Akha people
Akha mother and child
Eye patients in the Beng District
Cataract Surgeries
Dr. Leavitt with an Akha patient
Dr. Macko
Ear nose and throat check
Waiting for eye checks
Community health education
Eye patients in the Houn District
Patients in the La District
Lao Dentists hard at work
Lao team of doctors
Learning about new equipment
Loading the mission van!
Our mission van
Delivery of Equipment to Oudomxay Hospital
Eye patients in Pakbeng District
Reconstructive dental operation
Road conditions... challenging
Our team
US dentist at work
Waiting to be seen
Young one waits while mom is with the dentist
