A team of doctors from the Bambino Gesu (Baby Jesus) hospital in the Vatican are in the Dominican Republic carrying out surgeries of the heart and hare-lips on young children at the General Hospital in the Plaza de la Salud and at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital in Santo Domingo. First Lady Margarita Cedeno headed up the opening ceremonies. The heart surgeries will be carried out at the Reid Cabral facility and the hare-lip surgery will be done at the General Hospital in the Plaza de la Salud. As part of the agreement between the Dominican institutions and the Hospital Bambino Gesu, Dominican doctors will be able to get in-service training online, work-study programs in Rome and scholarships to Bambino Gesu. The medical bibliography available at hospital’s web site will be available free of charge to the local doctors. Later in the program, other areas of the country will be able to attend the clinical sessions.