... Persons with pre-existing medical conditions to bring along documents
FOR PERSONS with preexisting medical conditions, Minister Gary Cunningham from the Independence Church of Christ at 8 Hellshire Drive Portmore, St Catherine, is advising that they take along any documentation which would help the doctors in terms of insight into their overall health status for the four-day medical mission at the church.
“If they have a medical history, it would be good that they come and inform us so that we can have a basis on which to act, but outside of that, we do the full gamut in terms of examination and so forth, so we urge them to come out and access the services,” he appealed.
In fact, the church has made an effort to spread the mission to communities where the services will be best appreciated, taking it to the people wherever they are, especially over the past five years. Last year, it was in Patrick City, St Andrew and in 2015 Willowdene, Spanish Town was the location of choice. This rotation has really worked to the benefit of the people the church has targeted, in light of the overwhelmingly positive responses.
“There have been occasions that we have dealt with emergency cases where people come in and these are difficult cases and we helped them. The idea, though, is to engage the community outside of just providing the free medication and health care. So we find time to sit with the people and see how else we can try to meet the needs that they have, so it has been very positive in terms of the community outreach, very positive,” Minister Cunningham recalled.