New clinic performs ‘operation smile’
Thirty-year-old Sam Hoiy never dreamed her son would have the opportunity to live a life without the cleft lip that has always marred his otherwise delicate features. … Hoiy’s seven-month-old son is one of more than 100 Cambodians being treated and screened by a team of national and international experts working for the surgical NGO Operation Smile. The two-day screening that began on Sunday marks the official opening of the Khmer-Soviet Friendship hospital’s cleft surgery clinic, David Fruitman, secretary of Operation Smile’s board of directors, said. …
Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
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