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Perak MCA seeks more volunteer docs

IPOH: Perak MCA is looking for volunteer doctors from outside the Kinta Valley to join its community medical team which provides free service to the poor.

Its chairman, Datuk Ong Ka Chuan, said some of the doctors in Taiping, Parit Buntar and Kuala Kangsar had shown interest in serving with the community medical team.

“We hope to expand our service to areas outside Kinta Valley so that more people, especially those from the lower income group, can benefit from it.

“Currently we can only provide the service in the Kinta Valley as some of the volunteer doctors are on call even on weekends,” Ong said, adding that the team was established in May.

He said the team, comprising 10 doctors, was led by the Perak MCA Medical Bureau chief Dr Choo Kwong Foong.

“We hope to create an awareness on health and enable those from the lower income group and rural areas to get proper medical care.

“In the long run, we hope to build a community hospital to benefit the poor,” he told reporters after launching the programme at the Ampang Baru community hall here yesterday.

About 200 villagers came for health check-ups and a talk on health by Dr Koh Wai Ke