Medical team in to conduct free cleft surgeries
A medical team from 50 countries is on a mission in Ghana to offer free surgical operations to 107 Ghanaian children and adults with cleft lip/palate conditions. The operations began at the Ridge Hospital in Accra on Monday.
About 180 people with such facial deformities were screened, out of which a number was selected to benefit from the operations which will end on Friday, December 9, 2011.
Operation Smile, a non-profit, volunteer medical services organisation providing free reconstructive surgery in over 60 countries, is the organiser of the exercise.
Its mission principle, according to its Regional Programmes Manager for Africa, Ms Kia Guarino, is: “No child, in any community, should have to live with the pain and isolation caused by a correctable facial deformity.”
One in 1,000 babies is said to be born each year with a cleft lip and/or a cleft palate and one in 10 of these children dies before age one due to the inability to feed. Cleft lips are lips that are not fully formed, while cleft palates are holes in the roof of the mouth.
To assist in addressing the surgical needs of Ghanaian children and adults suffering from these problems the Operation Smile’s team of international and Ghanaian medical volunteers would provide free corrective surgery for the children to put smiles on the faces of their families.
Source: Daily Graphic
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