▶ KT&G foundation and Seoul National University Hospital at Bundang will offer medical volunteer services to Indonesian poor patients in Indonesia until the forthcoming January 8th. The picture shows that Dr. Park Moon-seok, an orthopedic surgeon in Seoul National Hospital at Bundang gave a medical test on a child patient with local medical team in Dr. Seotomo Provincial Hospital before surgery on January 3rd, when the medical team started the volunteer work.

KT&G welfare foundation(Chairman: Mr. Kwak Young-kyun) and Seoul National Hospital at Bundang(President: Professor Lee Cheol-hee, M.D.) will provide medical service to low-income patients in Indonesia until the forthcoming January 8th.
 
For the medical volunteer activities, about 30 medical teams consisting of doctors and nurses from Seoul National University Hospital at Bundang go to Indonesia on January 2nd and KT&G welfare foundation donated 150 million won for dispatching medical team and purchasing medical equipment and drugs.
 
The medical volunteer team will treat around 80 patients who cannot have medical access due to their economic difficulties in Dr. Seotomo Provincial Hospital in Java, east Indonesia and conduct heart surgeries for 20-something patients who requires emergency medical attention. They will arrange educational meeting about surgical skills to help the Indonesian doctors improve their own medical services.
 
A person concerned in KT&G welfare foundation said that “dispatching medical volunteer team to Indonesia is now its third this year and we will continue to volunteer for the local poor people.”
 
KT&G welfare foundation and Seoul National Hospital at Bundang also offered medical services of total 397 surgeries and treatments on heart disease patients in Uzbekistan in six trips since 2004. Dispatching medical volunteer team abroad is its 9th time this year.