Medical Volunteer Service, Practicing Warm Sharing
"30th Anniversary Medical and Rural Volunteer Work"
The destination for the "house call bag" carried by the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service labor-management team was a rural village.
On October 16, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of its founding, the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service Social Volunteer Corps (Chairman Park Jonggil, Medical Branch Union Leader Kim Youngja) announced that the labor and management visited Sanjeon-ri Village in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, to carry out a joint medical volunteer service.
This volunteer activity provides free medical services to residents in rural areas with insufficient healthcare infrastructure and assists farms struggling with labor shortages.
About 40 members from the headquarters, Daegu regional headquarters, and Daegu Hospital participated. Village seniors received basic health checkups for blood pressure and diabetes, rehabilitation treatment, nutritional IV prescriptions, and InBody measurements.
The volunteer group also visited a nearby grape farm to lend a helping hand and worked hard on village environment maintenance activities.
The head of Sanjeon-ri Village said, "It is very difficult for elderly residents with limited mobility to visit hospitals, so we are truly grateful that the labor-management volunteer team came directly to our village to provide medical services and even helped with farm work."
Park Jonggil, Chairman of the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service, said, "It was a meaningful occasion where labor and management united in purpose to coexist with the local community," adding, "The organization will continue its social contribution activities by reaching out to medically underserved and rural areas in need."
The Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service Social Volunteer Corps is operated with a fund created by employees voluntarily donating a portion of their monthly salaries, and continues various contribution activities for community sharing and welfare promotion.
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