UB Post - Friday, July 31, 2009
Shortly after arriving home from the Nagoya Sumo Championships, Mongolian sumo wrestler Ozeki Harumafuji D.Byambadorj departed again.
The champion wrestler is on his way to Gobi-Altai, along with several cardiovascular doctors, to help treat children with cardiovascular diseases in the area. Byambadorj is bearing the total cost of treatments and for the doctors.It is the ninth time doctors have visited Mongolia to help children with cardiovascular ailments. In total, doctors have examined 800 children and treated 150.
D.Byambadorj donated six Nihon Koden Company defibrillator machines for the Health Center of Songinokhairkhan District, the Gymnasium and Sport’s Office, the Mongolian National Wrestler’s Union, and the hospitals of Arkhangai, Ovorkhangai, and Gobi-Altai provinces.
The machines were presented to the Minister of Health S.Lambaa on July 29.
“Children are our future and I wish each Mongolian child health, so I wanted to hold this event,” said D.Byambadorj. “I want to give the first apparatus to my parents’ homeland (Gobi-Altai).”
D.Byambadorj will return to his home in Japan next Monday.