The New Jersey-based organization will be going to the island on its annual mission from September 4 to 16.
During the visit, the volunteer health care specialists from the New York- New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area will also be screening residents of Kingston, St Thomas, St Catherine, Clarendon, Manchester, and Westmoreland for sickle cell and a variety of other conditions.
“We have been saving lives, making people see again and become healthier, because of our yearly medical mission to Jamaica,” explained Help Jamaica Medical Mission president Dr. Robert Clarke in an overview he gave at his nonprofit organization’s annual Black and White Elegant Boat Cruise, aboard the ‘Cornucopia Majesty’ in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on June 29.
Altogether, since 2010 when his team conducted its inaugural mission to the island, the volunteers have served some 562,000 patients, Dr. Clarke went on to state.
The Medical Mission president offered that on its latest mission, last year, the team of medical practitioners saw over 4,500 patients and donated medicals valued at US$155,000.
According to Dr. Clarke, the Mission has been dedicated to providing free, high-quality healthcare services to those in desperate need, having served thousands of Jamaicans over the years.
New Jersey Medical Mission has spent some US$6 million to deliver medical services to the underserved in Jamaica, he said. Elaborating, he said the recent boat ride fundraiser had brought in just over US$70,000, which will go towards the medical mission to Jamaica this coming September.