A U.S. military medical team will work with Mongolian Armed Forces (MAF) and Border Protection Services (BPS) medical professionals to provide health care to rural and remote villages of Mongolia.  Last year, teams successfully treated over 3,000 patients in Bayan-Olgii and Omnogovi aimags.  This year, the team will travel to six northern villages in Zavkhan aimag, September 2-9.  In addition to providing free medical care to the rural population of Zavkhan, this initiative improves medical cooperation between Mongolia and the United States, and allows rural hospitals and Mongolian and American medical personnel to exchange medical techniques and ideas.

This year’s team will include dentists, general practitioners, internal medicine doctors, logisticians, medical assistants and technicians, an obstetrician/gynecologist, ophthalmologists, an optometrist, and veterinarians.  This effort was made possible by cooperation from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs, the Border Forces Headquarters and General Staff Headquarters of the MAF, the directors of the State Employees and Army hospitals, the Mongolian Customs Agency, Aero Mongolia, interpreters, cooks, village hospital staff, local drivers, and local families who give up their gers for a week so the medical team has a place to stay in the Zavkhan countryside.