The U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) will be dedicating a mobile women's health clinic next week in Belcourt, ND, to serve women in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
The mobile clinic will deliver care to American Indian/Alaskan Native women living on reservation lands in the agency's Aberdeen Area (North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska) who do not have convenient access to breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic examinations, the IHS said. The agency said it expects the unit will provide care for 15-20 patients per day.
The clinic will utilize satellite telecommunications technology to transmit digital mammography images to a remote reading center, and return the results to the patient prior to her departing the health clinic. Other services offered in conjunction with the mammography screening include digital breast ultrasound, bone densitometry, cholesterol and glucose screening, full pelvic exams and PAP smears, and women's health education, according to the IHS.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 20, 2004
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