Sponsored by the Kansas City-based Medical Aid for Children of Latin America, doctors from the DR and US operated on 300 children with a range of malformations at the Padre Billini Hospital in the Colonial City. The free surgery mission fell under the 22nd Dominican-American Reconstructive Surgery Campaign.
The Dominican Fundacion Renacer is also sponsoring the event. The program began today, Monday, 3 February and will end on Friday, 14 February, said Fundacion Renacer president Dr. Miguel Cotes. He said the goal is to perform around 35 surgeries per day. Most cases involve cleft lips/palates and cranio-facial deformities, burn scar contractures or deformities, hand problems, congenital ear deformities and a range of tumors and keloid scars.