OCALA – United Hands, Inc., a 40-member U.S.-based team of health professionals will be conducting free health screenings for the general public in St. Kitts and Nevis from July 28 to 31, 2008.
“The focus of our health screening will be on prevention” says Dr. Don Bovell, an emergency medicine physician in Central Florida, who serves as the medical director of United Hands. The screening tests offered include vision evaluation and free glasses, blood pressure checks, glucose and cholesterol screenings, dental evaluation and treatment, health, nutrition and weight loss counseling and medical exam by physicians and other healthcare practitioners.
Dr. Don Bovell
United Hands is an all-volunteer group that makes “mission trips” on an annual basis. Many of the team members are Caribbean nationals, including Dr. Don Bovell (Guyana), Dr. David Williams (St. Lucia), Ann Burnett (Jamaica), Wayne & Olga Hamilton (Jamaica). In prior years the group has traveled to Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, South Africa and Ghana. Each member of the group covers their own expenses for the trip.
For further information and pictures of previous United Hands trips, visit their website at www.unitedhandsinc.org or contact one of the following individuals: Dr. David R. Williams at 617-432-6807 or [email protected]; Ann Burnett at 352-209-1900 or [email protected]; Olga Hamilton at 954-341-3250 or [email protected]; Alvincent Hutsonat at 908-447-0969 or [email protected].
To send a tax deductable contribution, please make checks payable to: United Hands Inc., 2208 SE 24th Terrace, Ocala, FL 34471.
The visit of United Hands is sponsored by the St. Kitts/Nevis Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Ministry of Health of St. Kitts/Nevis.
