Operation Smile

Operation Smile is a worldwide charity treating children with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other facial deformities. They are currently on a new mission in Guwahati, India. Below is the full story from their site.

“An Operation Smile team of more than 45 medical and non-medical volunteers are volunteering their time in Guwahati, India, to provide free medical evaluations and surgery to children born with facial deformities. The Operation Smile team of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a dentist, pediatricians, a child life specialist and others will be working at MMC Hospital. The team consists of medical professionals from the United States, who will be working with their in-country Indian counterparts to provide patients with life-changing surgeries.

This will be Operation Smile’s first international medical mission to Guwahati. Since Operation Smile’s first mission to India in 2002, volunteers have provided free physical examinations to more than 4,200 patients and life-changing surgery to more than 1,700 children and young adults during international medical missions, throughout the country.

First international mission: 2002 
International mission sites: Bolpur, Deesa, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Himachal Pradesh, Jamshedpur,  Kolkata, Manipal, Rajkot, Vijayawada
Local mission sites: Kolkata, Deesa”

Source: www.operationsmile.org