During the Monlam two health assistance teams came as volunteers to tend to the medical needs of anyone in need of them.
One of them was a sixteen-strong team of doctors, nurses and pharmacologists. They came from Taipei with a wide range of medical supplies, and treated over 1000 patients over the span of the six days that they spent at the Monlam.
The teams treated monks and lay people, and more significantly, members of the local population, who are normally deprived of any kind of medical assistance.
High blood pressure, diabetes and skin afflictions were prevalent among the conditions that the teams diagnosed and for which they offered advice and treatment.
a selected group of IBA Monk were volunteering as interpreters.
… with the Doctor and Nurses of the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Taiwan
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