New Clinic Marks Turning Point for Correcting Cleft Surgeries
In a bustling room at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, doctors from the Philippines, the U.S. and Nigeria gathered Sunday around a young boy, sitting in a plastic chair, and asked him to open his mouth wide. The boy is one of more than 100 people who will be treated by an international and local team of experts from the surgical NGO Operation Smile during its 36th mission in the country. But this mission will be different. Up the hospital’s stairs, a $100,000 cleft clinic—equipped with four operating theaters fitted out with state-of-the-art equipment—officially opens today. …
Lauren Crothers
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