Turkish Medical Doctors Healed Mali Patients Who Can’t Access Healthcare
Within the framework of a health event that was held by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency and the İyilik Sağlık Foundation, a team of Turkish doctors and health officials conducted health examinations in the Sikasso region and the Sugulinku and Faladie refugee camps near Bamako.
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The health examinations were carried out from the 19th to the 25th of June, 2022 in Bougouny, in the Sikasso region, and they covered internal medicine, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, traumatology, emergency medicine, public health, child health and childhood diseases.
Over 250 patients had benefited from the health scans. In addition, the team had also examined more than 300 patients at the Bougouny Referans Hospital and gave them free medicine.
In the health examinations that were carried out in the Faladie refugee camps, which is where people who fled the civil war in northern Mali are staying, approximately 500 patients were examined. In addition, around 30 refugee boys were circumcised.
2,000 exams in total were covered during the health event.
