Mekong children to receive free facial surgery
Published: 12/12/2008 05:00
More than 300 children with cleft lip and palate deformities in the Mekong Delta region will receive free surgery from next week thanks to a campaign launched Friday in Ho Chi Minh City. |
Operation Smile Vietnam (OSV), National Hospital of OdontoStomatology in HCMC, and the Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel), will implement the project in 12 regional localities from December 15 to January 2. Volunteer doctors from the HCMC hospital will perform the surgeries on patients at hospitals in Tien Giang, Kien Giang and Vinh Long provinces. Viettel donated VND1.4 billion (US$82,000), covering all expenses for the campaign including all patient fees. More than 500 patients have already registered for the surgery, which normally takes 45-60 minutes and costs $150 for medicines, hospital fees, meals and transportation during the operation, according to OSV. Each year, about 3,000 infants are born in Vietnam with cleft clip and/or cleft palate, OSV said. Established in 1989, the nongovernmental OSV, part of the US-based Operation Smile Inc., has helped more than 12,000 Vietnamese children and young adults with cleft clip and palate deformities through local and international surgical missions. Reported by Van Khoa |
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