"20 10 Spring Zhengzhou International Smile Action" was officially launched in Zhengzhou First People's Hospital. All children from poor families with cleft lip and palate and other head and face deformities in China can enjoy free treatment. Registration is now continuing, and the registration consultation telephone number is 037 1-66358970.
More than 300 patients will receive preoperative screening nationwide.
Operation Smile provides free medical care for children with cleft lip and palate and other head and face deformities from poor families. This is the sixth time that the International Smile Action Therapy Volunteer Organization and China Smile Action Foundation have held Smile Action in Zhengzhou. In February this year, Zhengzhou First People's Hospital, the designated hospital for domestic cooperation in this operation, has opened a hotline to receive consultation and registration from domestic patients. Up to now, more than 300 poor children with cleft lip and palate from all over the country have signed up.
This morning, the action was officially launched in the First People's Hospital of Zhengzhou City, and all the applicants came to receive the preoperative screening by the expert group. Patients who meet the age, reach the weight standard and have no other complications are hospitalized for free surgery.
Experts are all volunteers, and round-trip air tickets are at their own expense.
According to the hospital, the experts who made up the "Smile Action" came from the United States, Italy, Russia, Kenya and other countries, including Hong Kong medical plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, otolaryngologists and volunteer translators, totaling more than 60 people.
"They are all' International Smile Action Medical Volunteers' from various countries. They don't charge any fees for surgery on patients, and even they have to pay for their own round-trip tickets. " Yan Xiying, chief of the medical department of the First People's Hospital of Zhengzhou City, said that during this period in previous years, these volunteer experts had to perform dozens of operations every day and entered the operating room, except for going to the toilet. "It's hard to have lunch at noon."
Operation Smile continues to accept applications for 6 days.
"I don't know what to say, thank them so much!" Aunt Fan, 66, comes from Xuchang Xiang County, holding a one-and-a-half-year-old baby boy with cleft lip in her arms. Aunt Fan said that the child was picked up by herself on the roadside a year ago, and everything was normal except for cleft lip.
"Pay attention to eating these things!" A translation volunteer from Hong Kong was surrounded by many people, and two foreign experts in the middle held cardboard full of words to publicize the knowledge of prenatal and postnatal care to women of childbearing age, reminding them not to abuse drugs, pay attention to nutrition, intervene birth defects as soon as possible, and reduce the chance of fetal cleft lip and palate.
The reporter was informed that after the preoperative screening that day, eligible patients will receive free surgery from the 23rd to 28th of this month. It is also known that "Operation Smile" continues to accept registration, and as long as it meets the surgical conditions, it can receive free surgical treatment.
International Smile Action
Operation Smile is a non-profit charity action, which provides free medical care for children with cleft lip and palate and other head and face deformities in poor families. 1990165438+10. In October, through the enthusiastic contact between Dr. Han Kai and Dr. Lin Jing, the International Smile Action was first introduced to China. 199 1 In May, with the full support of a group of Hong Kong patriots such as Mr. Tony Fung, Mr. Yi Jie and Ms. Zhao Zengxue, and with the strong assistance and contact of Dr. Han Kai and Dr. Lin Jing, International Smile came to China for the first time, and cooperated with Hangzhou Plastic Surgery Hospital, Zhejiang Province to provide 176 sick children with cleft lip and palate and facial burns.
Since 199 1, Smile International has cooperated with provincial and municipal hospitals in more than 20 cities in China and successfully held many treatment services. At present, the Volunteer Medical Team of Operation Smile has examined and screened13,250 children, among which 8,205 children in China have received good free plastic surgery through Operation Smile, and the training time for international exchange between local hospitals and Operation Smile has exceeded 8,000 hours (excluding the training time for personnel selected from all over the world).