Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Cataract Surgical & Eye Care Outreach in the Philippines

Dr. Chris Buniel, Director of Montero Medical Missions EyeSight Program in the Philippines, continues his excellent leadership in promoting eyecare as shown in these photos. He also Chairs the consortium of Provincial Gov't., NGOs, non-profit organizations, foundations, and businesses to promote eyecare for the entire 600,000 population of the province of Surigao del Sur, where the MMM EyeSight Program is headquartered. Click Here to review images from the mission.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

"Health Fair for Veterans" Project.

It has been exhilarating during these past few weeks to make contacts, meet new friends and speak before different veterans' groups, non-profit and professional organizations in promoting our planned monthly "Health Fair for Veterans" project, come late spring/early summer. This is so powerful a cause that everyone I talked to about it, generally ends up volunteering.
Here is the current list of entities that are in support/or expressed interest:

1. Montero Medical Missions
2. Chesapeake Care Free Clinic
3. Virginia Veterans Services
4. Virginia Dept. of Health
5. Virginia Dept. of Health Professions
6. Virginia Wounded Warrior Program
7. Beach Eye Care
8. American Orthotic & Prosthetic Center
9. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center Medical Staff and Nurses
10. Chesapeake Medical Society and its Alliance [Auxiliary]
11. Philippine Medical Assoc.of SeVa and its Auxiliary
12. Philippine Nurses Assoc. of Virginia
13. Filipino-American Veterans of Hampton Roads
14. We Care Medical Transport
15. All Heart Home Health Care
16. EVMS Medical Students
17. Aklan Ati-Atihan USA, Inc.
18. LTD Hospitality Group
19. ECPI-Military Division
20. Hampton Roads Council of Veterans Organizations
21. Friends Of The Elderly[F.O.T.E.] Foundation
22. Tidewater Community College
23. Asian Association of Hampton Roads
24. Towne Bank
26. World Affairs Council
27. Bayview Physicians
28. Disabled American Veterans
29. Chesapeake Sheriff's Department
30. Wounded Wear
31. Filipino-American Community Action Group
32. Wolcott Rivers Gates Attorneys at Law
33. ODU Center of Global Health
34. SeVa Community Foundation
35. Chesapeake Alliance
36. Seriously Weight Loss
37. CHEAR[Coalition for Hearing Education And Research]
38. WHRO
39. Angel Care
40. Medical Direct
41. RRMM Design Build, LLC
42. Medical and Surgical Eye Specialists
43. VFW, Chesapeake Post 2894
44. Va. Beach Development Group

45. MacArthur Center Mall