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 »
Faridabad, India
Kevin Shultz is from the Portsmouth Rotary Club and this is his second Rotaplast Mission. During the pre-clinic phase of the Misson, Kevin was assigned to help with the photos. Each patient was assigned a ... Read More »
Faridabad, India
I noticed this young woman and her baby early in the day on the first day of clinic. Here she is getting through the registration process where they mark the patient to prevent confusion. The next step in ... Read More »
