The Guyana Watch Medical team wrapped up its last clinic yesterday at the Windsor Forest Primary School. The team saw more than 3000 patients in less than a week.The visiting medical team has 13 doctors, two pharmacists, two dentists and 16 support staffers. They needed every one of them yesterday as they examined more than 500 people, prescribing treatments and dispensing medication.Even though the team has been in the field for one week, the members were no less energetic and involved in their work yesterday than they were on their first day here.Two of the medical staff, Dr. Roy Vega, and his wife, Melissa, who specializes in Pediatrics had pictures of one of the little girls that they had seen today. When asked what made this little girl so special they said that she had a cleft palate the severity of which was such that they were going to take her information back to their hospitals to see if they could arrange surgery for her.Dr. Patti Vitale,
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