Illustrative image (Source: VNA) (VNA) – Sixty-two people with cleft palate in the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue and surrounding localities received free check-ups and surgeries from
February 18-28.
Volunteer doctors
and nurses from Germany’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Humanitarian
Organisation () and the Odonto-Stomatology Centre of Hue Central
Hospital conducted the operations.
Director of the
Odonto-Stomatology Centre Nguyen Hong Loi said the centre has worked with many
foreign doctors to offer free surgeries, especially for children.
This was the fourth
time Interplast had come to the Hue Central Hospital. Along with providing medicine
for 62 patients, the organisation also shared experience with young doctors and
nurses of the hospital.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
