Dankook University has been serving areas under blind spots of medical welfare benefits with healing acts for 3 years. Dankook University medical team visits Cheongyang-gun located near Cheonan Campus. There isn’t any general hospital in district although many are suffering with elderly illnesses since most of the residents are elders as most of farming neighbors.
In 2010, Dankook University signed an cooperative exchange agreement with Cheongyang-gun where Chunngyang Farm, a practice farm of fruit planting, is located. This was a promise to pump up more active exchanges in between based on the relations they had since 1970s. According to this agreement, Cheongyang-gun requested to send medical team in consideration of Cheongyang-gun which is lacking medical supports. As requested, Dankook University has been sending continuously voluntary medical team since 2011.
This year’s medical volunteering activity was opened in Cheongyang Cultural Center located in Cheongyang-eup of Cheongyang-gun on last April 12th. Under the lead of Professor Gi-Chung Pak (Department of Neuropsychiatry), total 30 people including 25 medical teams of 9 different departments as Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation Medicine, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, Rheumatic Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Neuropsychiatry have volunteered. At medical practice site, most of the clients were elders suffering from diabetes, high blood-pressure, or degenerative arthritis. From 9:30am to 4:30pm, total 902 medical cases were practiced constantly. Medical volunteer team received applause from local residents because they not only provided high quality test and medical treatment service by bringing major test equipments on sites for ECG (electrocardiography) and bone densitometry including slit lamp microscope, but also provided prescriptions for medicine.
Dankook University and Cheongyang-gun’s relationship started long time ago. On 1972, Dankook University has been fulfilling social responsibility as a University by building houses for Cheongyang residents and re-educating farmers etc. Especially on 1975, it established ‘Periodic Dankook Farmer’s School’ in Chang-gok village of Cheongyang-gun and re-educated farmers and taught outstanding farming successors. It has received presidential commendation for such contribution for 2 times already. Also, currently it is operating ‘Cheongyang Farm in affiliation with Dankook University’ in Cheongyang as a fruit planting practice farm.
