Test For Life 2009

The last site was Sukhbaatar village of Selenge province. It is a main gate to the Russia and TFL reached there by vehicle traveled 650km. The province is one of the most developed in agriculture.

The provincial hospital was pretty good equipped, but as common in other provinces no developed cervical cancer screening there, still no cytology lab exists. In 17^th and 18^th of August were screened 282 local women.  TFL team had a good support from local medical staff, thanks to Dr Selenge, nurse Tsetsegmaa and Dr Od, a director of the hospital.

By visiting this site, TFL 2009 completed its main stage of collecting the screening pap smears for further processing and reading. Total collected 2800 smears as planed initially.

Finally, TFL covered all 21 provinces of Mongolia; most provinces were visited for the first and one time. And to have a real impact and benefit for local community, it is required to re-visit for screening 3-4 times provinces to screen new unscreened women in order to involve minimum 1000-1500 screenings in each site.

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TFL team reached Choir village of Gobi-Sumber province by vehicle. It is a small province located in South-East from UB and expected to be another mining town in the near future.

Women and local community were very well informed about TFL visit, some of them came from nearby villages and provinces. In 10^th and 11^th August, 324 women had been involved in the screening.

Provincial doctors attended in TFL classes, some medical graduate students met there and had an opportunity to learn and practice in cervical cancer screening procedure.

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Sainshand is a provincial center of Dorno-Gobi (East Gobi) province. The village located close to the main train and vehicle entrance to China, a regular local train makes easy for patients to get the UB for detected cases.

A small team of TFL visited the village for their first time and welcomed by local medical staff. TFL volunteers were well known for them from 2000 when was conducted first regional workshops on organizing the care and service for terminally ill cancer patients in Umnu-Gobi (South Gobi) province, guided by Dr Bayar.

Because of having a good colposcope in the Sainshand provincial hospital, some of very suspicious patients for cervical cancer had an opportunity to be examined colposcopically and managed locally without referring to UB.

Local medical staff actively participated in TFL classes.

In Sainshand were screened 404 women in 3^th and 4^th of August. (Click on the photo link to proceed to the web album of site No6)