The Catholic University of Korea has sent a 90-strong staff-student medical team to treat people in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.

The team, which includes students majoring in various fields including internal medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and radiology, will provide medical and social services from July 25 until Aug. 4.

The team will also build or repair houses, and offer educational activities for poor people in regions near the capital.

During a July 24 departure ceremony, University President Father Johan Pahk Yeong-sik encouraged participants to take the opportunity to think deeply about sharing their lives and practicing the school’s ideals of truth, love and service.

“The service you will provide will be a fundamental indicator to assist you in choosing your way … in life,” Father Pahk counselled.

The university has, since 1997, dispatched similar teams to “Third World” locations during summer vacation each year. That year, the school first sent a team to Papua New Guinea.

Later the program expanded to include Mongolia, the Philippines, Uzbekistan and other countries.

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