A national project to bring free medical support for those in need made in recent days, about 1,700 screenings of disease in four parishes in the county of Ponta Delgada, announced source of the initiative.
Named SMS - Medical and Social Solidarity, the project involved volunteers, from doctors, nurses and health technicians, who developed several actions during the last week, the parishes of Arrifes, San Jose, Fajã de Livramento and Low.
According to the same source, the results of the initiative exceeded expectations, given that 1,500 surveys were conducted at 530 adults, including measurements of blood glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides and study of respiratory function.
In addition, the volunteers made another 200 screenings of vision for children and promoted awareness-raising in the area of oral hygiene to 1,200 students as well as actions of family planning, breast self-examination of breastfeeding and about 300 adults and adolescents.
In total over the past five days, said the same source, benefited from this project about two thousand people of the county of Ponta Delgada, an initiative that goes to the county of Mértola, between 21 and November 24.
This project involved "a major logistics" which took nine months to organize, with the aim of helping for free and humane all that, for geographical reasons or social, have no access to basic health care, said.
After this first action, the technicians of the project following SMS, until December, for some parishes of the municipalities of Mértola and Sabugal.
The responsible even said that for the year, are already scheduled six operations on the continent, admitting the possibility that the project back in 2007, the other Azorean island.
Among the entities that joined the project include medical volunteers, the School of Health of Leiria, the School of Health Technology of Lisbon, the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Association of Support for Women with Breast Cancer and the municipal councils of Ponta Delgada, Mértola and the Sabugal.
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