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AMBON, VLISINGEN CONDUCT FREE UROLOGICAL SURGERY
Ambon, Indonesia, March 23 (ANTARA) - Ambon and Vlissingen municipal governments have again conducted free urological surgery for the people of Ambon from March 22 to April 4, 2010.
Steering Committee chairman Donald Soukotta said here on Tuesday that the free urological operation was the third of its kind and as part of a cooperation between Ambon-Vlissingen sister city program in the past ten years.
"It is the third operation, conducted by Ambon municipal government in cooperation with Vlissingen city in the Netherlands. The medicines and the operation cost are borne by the Vlissingen municipal government," Soukotta said.
He said the urological operation would take place at Tulehu public hospital (RSU Tulehu) in Salahutu subdistrict on the island of Ambon.
The team of doctors of Maluku origin from Vlissingen, is made up of eurologist Emilia Lucia Manuhuttu-Nanlohy,
Alice Crawfurd, Rachelle Tabitha, Evelin Leonora Haliwela, Jozef Leonie H. Beerens, and a urologist from Jakarta, dr Frits.
"All of the doctors arrived in Ambon on Sunday, March 20, 2010, and patients started to register themselves since Monday for the free operation from Tuesday until Sunday, April 4, 2010," Soukotta said.
Therefore he called on the people of Ambon who would like to have the free operation to register themselves either directly to RSU Tulehu or at the nearby community health centers (Puskesmas).
Meanwhile, Ambon Health Office spokesman Hans Liesay said that besides conducting free urological surgery, the team of doctors from Vlissingen also conducted free cataract operation for some 220 patients at Otto Kuyk Hospital in Passo, Baguala sub-district, from March 8-18, 2010.
Besides focusing on health service, the Ambon-Vlissingen cooperation was also focused on neighborhood cleanliness, garbage management, and education in the form of student exchange program between Ambon and Vlissingen.
The cooperation is also conducted through comparative study which was participated by a number of Ambon municipal administration officials in Vlissingen.
Steering Committee chairman Donald Soukotta said here on Tuesday that the free urological operation was the third of its kind and as part of a cooperation between Ambon-Vlissingen sister city program in the past ten years.
"It is the third operation, conducted by Ambon municipal government in cooperation with Vlissingen city in the Netherlands. The medicines and the operation cost are borne by the Vlissingen municipal government," Soukotta said.
He said the urological operation would take place at Tulehu public hospital (RSU Tulehu) in Salahutu subdistrict on the island of Ambon.
The team of doctors of Maluku origin from Vlissingen, is made up of eurologist Emilia Lucia Manuhuttu-Nanlohy,
Alice Crawfurd, Rachelle Tabitha, Evelin Leonora Haliwela, Jozef Leonie H. Beerens, and a urologist from Jakarta, dr Frits.
"All of the doctors arrived in Ambon on Sunday, March 20, 2010, and patients started to register themselves since Monday for the free operation from Tuesday until Sunday, April 4, 2010," Soukotta said.
Therefore he called on the people of Ambon who would like to have the free operation to register themselves either directly to RSU Tulehu or at the nearby community health centers (Puskesmas).
Meanwhile, Ambon Health Office spokesman Hans Liesay said that besides conducting free urological surgery, the team of doctors from Vlissingen also conducted free cataract operation for some 220 patients at Otto Kuyk Hospital in Passo, Baguala sub-district, from March 8-18, 2010.
Besides focusing on health service, the Ambon-Vlissingen cooperation was also focused on neighborhood cleanliness, garbage management, and education in the form of student exchange program between Ambon and Vlissingen.
The cooperation is also conducted through comparative study which was participated by a number of Ambon municipal administration officials in Vlissingen.
