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Children wait for an eye examination in the kindergarten of Lunca de Sus in Transylvania, Romania. Volunteer doctors travel around Hargita county twice a year to examine and treat children in need at local hospitals and schools. Pictures taken between May 7 and May 10, 2012 and made available today.
European Pressphoto Agency photographer Balazs Mohai followed a group of volunteer doctors and dentists this month as they dispensed treatment to children living in rural communities in Romania's Hargita county, part of the historical region of Transylvania.
The International Children's Safety Service sends a team of medical professionals around Hargita twice a year to examine and treat children in need at local hospitals and schools, irrespective of national, political or religious affiliation.
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Volunteers Adrienn Szabo, left, and Eniko Grozdics examine children in a kindergarten in Armaseni.
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Volunteer dentists Daniel Kepes, left, and Kiyan Ojtun Arda examine a boy in Sandominic.
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A girl waits for an eye examination in the kindergarten of Lunca de Sus.
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Children play outside a kindergarten in Armaseni as they wait for a medical examination.
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Volunteer medical workers have dinner in Sandominic after completing their work for the day.
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God bless these volunteers who give so much to make this world a better place.
I encourage anyone who hasn't served their fellow man in a big way, to do so. The rewards can't be counted. This will change your lives! Not to mention what it does for those affected by your gift!
At least these kids get seen by a doc and dentist twice a year. How many MILLIONS of Americans don't get to do that because they cannot afford or have been turned down for health insurance??
Yah, maybe doctors will see the USA as a place to volunteer might not be as exotic BUT even Romania has
free healthcare and hospitals might not be pretty but they have it....
If that stupid know president of old Romania will had let us to travel and see the true about capitalism
who knows what will be now in Romania. Learn people,learn from past history. And yes the most rich country
in the wold USA is full of poverty ,corruption and no hopes.Sad very sad the AMERICAN dream is gone with all the
crocks .Motto of USA ,,Come here make money and then give up your citizen in name of the dollars'' .WTF ?
Recently I had an abcess (sp?) in my gum right at the end of the root of a canine. Cost to have a root canal done $748 out of pocket because I can't afford insurance.
The abcess is still there and it's painful. Dentistry is ridiculously overpriced. I'm so thankful these kids are being seen by selfless doctors and dentists to help them.