Home • Missions • Latin America • Peru • Lima • 2015 • Day 7: Fifth Operation Day
The goal for this mission was 40 operations because maxillofacial surgeries take a significant amount of time, yet we have already completed 58 operations.
Most of the patients are only in the hospital overnight. The 13 operations that took place today included 9 children above the age of 10, with the eldest being age 39. There were many operations repairing fistulas and palates.
Lima, Peru
We are almost to our final day of operating, everything is on schedule and things are running smoothly. We start our day preparing the operating rooms for the first surgeries and locate the children that a... Read More »
Lima, Peru
Today we performed 12 operations on babies and small children. This was the first operation for most if not all of these children. It was a difficult time for many of these mothers to hand over their child... Read More »
Lima, Peru
This is our last day with the post clinic and packing up to go back to Rotaplast in San Francisco. Again, alot of people were already waiting at 9:00 a.m.. Nice to see the kids back. Even after a week Read More »
Pasadena, California
Pictured Above: Marilyn Diaz (middle), seated just like Einstein, in the library with fellow CHATs at the Mt. Wilson Observatory Special thanks author/interviewer Gloria Mullendore and the Caltech Women&#... Read More »
Cebu City, Philippines
The final day of our Rotaplast Mission is the culmination of the incredible dedication and work by our team over the last nine days, with 69 children receiving new smiles and changed lives! On this day o... Read More »
