Hong Ngoc Hospital, Facing the World offer free surgeries for disfigured children
VOV.VN - Hong Ngoc General Hospital is coordinating with a team of doctors from UK-based charity Facing the World to perform free surgeries for Vietnam’s poor children with facial disfigurements from May 5 to 13.
The team of doctors provided medical check-ups and identified the profiles of candidate patients at Hong Ngoc Hospital. Surgery will be arranged for children whose health conditions meet the necessary requirements. After surgery, they will receive optimal postoperative recovery from Hong Ngoc Hospital for between one and two months for each case.
Doctor Niall Kirkpatrick is a consultant plastic surgeon and head of the Craniofacial Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. As Medical Director for the Facing the World charity, he has travelled to more than 20 countries around the world, bringing smiles to countless children with facial disfigurements.
Simon Eccles is a Secretary and Surgeon with Facing the World. He has extensive experience as a craniofacial surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for many years. He is a past president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
She has been working with many foreign medical teams, such as a US group under the “Operation Smile” program and a Dutch Interplast group, to provide humanitarian surgery for disadvantaged patients with jaw defects in eight northern provinces and cities.
In this aim, the hospital arranges annual collaborations with world leading charity organizations such as Facing the World from the UK and R.I.C.E from the US to perform free surgeries for disadvantaged children with birth defects.
Through the program, the hospital hopes to set up a specialized channel to receive information about disfigured children with financial difficulties and work with benefactors to generate a wave of donations from across the country.