Gospel for Asia Medical Camps in Asia Offer Hope & Healing

Gospel for Asia medical camps in Asia offer free medical care to assist families who are often too poor to pay for their own medical needs, or typically have little hope of ever receiving proper medical care.

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” —Hippocrates

There is a hospital about 15 miles north of my home. There is another 12 miles west. There is a third just 12 miles south. There are three urgent care facilities within a 6-mile radius. My doctor’s office and three pharmacies are less than 2 miles away. In some places in Asia, that is not the case, especially for those living in rural and remote villages.

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whilst the hospitals provide a needed service by ministering to medical needs and training physicians, they also serve a much greater scope of care by reaching out to the unreached in the rural villages and slum areas where medical aid is not readily available. They do this by organizing and conducting free medical camps in these communities throughout Asia. The mobile medical camps provide aid and medical care to over 100,000 people every year who could not otherwise access or afford it.

Most people living in remote villages are daily wage laborers who earn very meager income. They don’t go hospitals or get a health checkup even when they are sick because what little income they have is not sufficient to afford to the costs of getting a good health checkup or buying the medicines the doctor has prescribed for them. Sadly, many people die each year even though their sickness was easily curable.

“It is health that is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.” —Gandhi

The vision of GFA-supported medical camps is to ultimately be available to more than 2 million people amongst economically weaker sections of Asia. A spokesman for Believers Church, a GFA field partner, remarked at a free medical camp to raise awareness about combatting dengue and Chikungunya:

“While there is still awareness amongst the privileged classes, it is the underprivileged who need awareness as well as medical attention during times of an outbreak. We will replicate these camps across [the northern part of the country] and reach out to the grass-root level people to prevent further outbreak.”

GFA invites specialized doctors to work at the medical camps and offer general health, eye, dental and other medical checkups to attendees. The camps also provide free medicines and treatments to people according to their need.

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