Dallas, 30 mar (EFE) .- A delegation of about 600 physicians, anesthesiologists and nurses licensed in United States conducted a voluntary medical missions in the poorest areas of Peru only one objective: to help the needy.

Since 1973, the year of its founding, the Peruvian Association of Physicians in United States (PAMS, in English) is organizing a series of health events such as have at least eight trips or missions through which they are served free of charge in the last two decades to approximately 100,000 patients and performed 8000 surgical procedures have been specialized, according to the organization

Ralph Kuon, a physician based in California and Peruvian former president of PAMS, told Efe that the organization is working with academic institutions and medical colleges from Peru to coordinate and train physicians on the cutting edge in the emerging field of health .

In addition, we made a strong coordination with the government to plan events such as medical missions being conducted during the year and in Peru's Social Security to improve its programs such as transplant bone marrow that are behind in that country about fifteen years, Kuon said.

The vast majority of surgeries performed PAMS are concentrated in the department of Ayacucho, one of the poorest and hardest hit by the wave of terrorism that hit Peru since the eighties.

According to Kuon, doctors and volunteers to move the PAMS Andean region and are not paid to the cost of transportation, lodging and accommodations.

But we do have a charitable fund that is used specifically for the Peru and pay only one employee in the 16 Divisions with PAMS in which United States and Puerto Rico and one in Lima which is responsible for tax and legal formalities which are needed, Kuon said.

In fact, the weekend was formally inaugurated in Dallas (Texas) Division PAMS of North Texas and organized an evening to raise funds and publicize the work of that organization to local doctors.

Pablo Uceda, Peru and vascular surgeon, is president of PAMS in northern Texas and told Efe that joined that organization because he felt a need to help the people of Ayacucho, which do not have the basic needs of human beings.

At home assignment, which lasts about two weeks, we conducted over 60 operations and need for such interventions countless surgical tools and medicines, said Uceda.

Each mission takes place in Ayacucho has a cost of $ 25,000 and move about 120 volunteers. Of these, only 20 per cent of Peruvian nationality, the rest are doctors from different parts of the world working in the U.S. and Europe.

The hardest thing is dealing with donations from Customs offices and containers that arrive in Peru and that the process takes much, besides pay and bring the area from Lima to Ayacucho, said Uceda.

The goal in each of events to raise funds that we do is at least make the cost of at least one week in Ayacucho, said the doctor who resides in Dallas for over ten years.

Office of PAMS in Lima is responsible for managing the temporary medical leave for the doctors involved and to certify the medical specialty of each of the doctors and nurses, according to Peruvian laws.

PAMS works closely with the Health Ministry and the Ombudsman, an independent body that protects the constitutional and fundamental rights of the individual and the community. All work as medical and surgical operations are carried out in hospitals of the Peruvian government.

PAMS is the only institution that has received two major honors awarded by the Peruvian Government: Order Sun and Grand Chancellor of the transparency and honesty of their work and to work for the good of the health of Peruvian Ayacucho. EFE