<div>From Ludhiana to El Salvador
Reporting from Baltimore - After two trips to Ludhiana, an American surgical team, led by two Sikh orthopedists, will perform free knee and hip replacements next year for about 50 impoverished patients in El Salvador.
Operation Walk Maryland, led by Harpal Singh Khanuja and Gurminder Singh Ahuja, is a non-profit, volunteer medical-service organization that provides free joint replacements for very poor people in developing countries, and in the United States.
Their patients suffer from disabling arthritis and other debilitating bone and joint conditions, and have little to no access to life-improving care.
A team of about 45 medical personnel will travel to the San Rafael Hospital in San Salvador at the end of January 2013. A pre-team has already visited the hospital and the patient screening has begun.
El Salvador is a very small country with a population about that of Maryland, said Juan Jose Daboub, former minister of the treasury, who now lives in Potomac, Maryland. The country experiences 4,400 new case of arthritis every year.
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Reporting from Baltimore - After two trips to Ludhiana, an American surgical team, led by two Sikh orthopedists, will perform free knee and hip replacements next year for about 50 impoverished patients in El Salvador.
Operation Walk Maryland, led by Harpal Singh Khanuja and Gurminder Singh Ahuja, is a non-profit, volunteer medical-service organization that provides free joint replacements for very poor people in developing countries, and in the United States.
Their patients suffer from disabling arthritis and other debilitating bone and joint conditions, and have little to no access to life-improving care.
A team of about 45 medical personnel will travel to the San Rafael Hospital in San Salvador at the end of January 2013. A pre-team has already visited the hospital and the patient screening has begun.
El Salvador is a very small country with a population about that of Maryland, said Juan Jose Daboub, former minister of the treasury, who now lives in Potomac, Maryland. The country experiences 4,400 new case of arthritis every year.
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