The KT&G Welfare Foundation and SNU Hospital in Bundang is to perform volunteer medical service activities in Indonesia for seven days starting from September 30.

For this medical service, the SNU Hospital in Bundang will send a medical team of 32, including doctors and nurses, and the KT&G Welfare Foundation will provide support with a total amount of ₩150 million to cover the expenses required for purchasing medicine and medical supplies.

The medical service team will perform a variety of medical treatment activities such as performing operations on more than 30 poor patients who cannot afford medical treatment at the Dr. Seotomo State Hospital in Java, east of Indonesia, and plans to help increase the level of local medical care through exchanges and cooperation on techniques relating to operations.

A KT&G official said, “As Indonesia is vast and populous, medical care varies widely from region to region,” adding that “we will continue to perform volunteer medical services for the local people on the margins of society.”

The KT&G Welfare Foundation has supported a total of 397 operations and treatments six times for patients with heart disease in Uzbekistan since 2004 in conjunction with SNU Hospital in Bundang, and this is the second time following the previous year that a medical service team has been sent to Indonesia.