DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Indian Medical Camp

DEVELOPMENT REPORT
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Indian Medical Camp

By Shelley Gollust

Broadcast: March 11, 2002
This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report.

 

Doctors recently treated more than twenty-thousand people at a special medical
camp in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The medical camp takes place during
the month of January in a hospital that is supported by the organization in the village
of Bidada. A non-profit organization called the Bidada Sarvodaya Trust organizes it
each year.

Doctors from India and the United¹ States treat the patients. The patients are from
more than one-thousand poor villages in the area of Kutch. Vijay Chheda is one of
the organizers² of the medical camp. He says the patients receive the best medical
care at the camp for free.

Mister³ Chheda says that this year doctors treated the patients for more than twenty diseases⁴ and medical
problems. Doctors performed more than seven-hundred operations during the camp. Almost two-hundred patients
with the most serious problems were sent to hospitals in the city of Bombay, also known⁵ as Mumbai

Many patients at the medical camp were suffering from physical or mental problems caused by a severe⁶
earthquake that shook the area in January, Two-Thousand -One. This year, the hospital started a center for people
who were seriously injured⁷ in the earthquake. For example, the center provides man-made⁸ legs for people whose
legs were destroyed. The government of Gujarat is providing money and training for this center.

The Bidada medical camp began twenty-eight years ago. At first, doctors treated only patients with eye diseases.
Then the organizers expanded the camp to help people with other diseases. Organizers say the medical camp has
treated more than two -million people since it began.

People in India, the United States and other countries provide the money to operate the medical camp. More than
fifty doctors from the United States were part of the program this year. The doctors and other people provide
their services without being paid.

Many doctors who serve in the camp were born in Kutch and now are living in the United States. Some of them
have been returning to volunteer at the camp each year for many years. The doctors from the United States also
teach local Indian doctors the most modern medical techniques.

This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Shelley Gollust. This is Bill White.

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1 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

2 organizers   

n.组织者( organizer的名词复数 )；备忘记事本，电子笔记本

参考例句：

• We need fewer organizers and more doers. 我们需要的是少些组织者，多些实干者。
• The organizers of the march were charged with assault and riotous assembly . 游行组织者被控侵犯人身及暴乱性非法集会。

3 mister   

n.(略作Mr.全称很少用于书面)先生

参考例句：

• Mister Smith is my good friend.史密斯先生是我的好朋友。
• He styled himself " Mister Clean ".他自称是“清廉先生”。

4 diseases   

n.疾病( disease的名词复数 )；弊端；恶疾；痼疾

参考例句：

• Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases. 抽烟是引起几种严重疾病的病因。
• The illness frequently coexists with other chronic diseases. 这种病往往与其他慢性病同时存在。

5 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

6 severe   

adj.严格的，凶猛的，严肃的，严重的，严厉的，朴素的

参考例句：

• The severe storm did for most of the crops.猛烈的暴风雨毁掉了大部分庄稼。
• The pace was too severe to be kept up for long.跟上这步伐太难了，无法持久。

7 injured   

adj.受伤的

参考例句：

• Our best defender is injured and won't be able to play today.我们最佳的防守员受伤了，今天不能参加比赛。
• The injured men have been dug out of the snow.受伤人员从雪中被挖了出来。

8 man-made   

adj.人造的，合成的，人为的

参考例句：

• Nylon is a man-made fibre.尼龙是一种人造纤维。
• Many countries have sent up man-made satellites to circle the earth.许多国家已经发射人造卫星围绕地球运转。