Thursdays of Health gives constant specialized services to the needy people in villages and marginalized places near Mashhad. The move has received warm welcome of the public in all villages it has been run up to now. Tabadkan, Kalate Menar, Hedel Abad, Joghri, Kalateh Mallou of Ghouchan were some of the villages receiving services.
Members of the deployed team include 20 to 30 dentists, psychologists, general practitioners, midwives, optometrists, and nurses. Members of this team provide residents of these areas with various services including medical visits, counseling, health screening and primary treatments for free. The services provided during these eight months have been arranged in a way that they can lead to the improvement of their life conditions as well.
Thursdays of Health was successful to give one thousand and 768 free medical visits to the poor people. Identifying those suffering from vision problems and giving them free eyeglasses as well as distributing food packages among the poor and pregnant women are some other outstanding services of this project.
This team has run 38 camps in last four years and it plans to increase and promote its services in a way that people in less developed regions can live a pleasant and healthy life”.