Charity: Supporting Consultant Trips from the UK

Supporting Consultant Trips from the UK

Raising funds for Facing the World charity

Last month we taught you about Facing the World’s efforts to train medical professionals in how to safely treat children born with facial differences. Each year they send numerous practitioners to Vietnam, as well as hosting Vietnamese doctors in the UK, US and Canada, to learn more about the skills involved. While this is hugely beneficial and has made a significant difference to many children’s lives, it comes with a cost. According to Facing the World, three one-week missions cost £202,550. 1 The charity needs funds to not only pay for the operations children with facial differences desperately need, but the cost of travel, visas, accommodation, subsistence, drivers and translators for the team it takes.

Figure 1: Children affected by facial deformities who were assessed by the

Figure 2: Trainee medical professionals following a lecture by Facing the World consultants

In addition, the three consultants delivered a two-hour lecture at Hong Ngoc Hospital on the applications of patient-specific planning in maxillofacial surgery, orbital fracture repair complications, and augmentation techniques in facial surgery.

The trip was a resounding success, but more donations are needed to offer more in future. Show your support and help fund these UK-based practitioners

missions by donating to Facing the World today.

Missions from the UK In October 2019, a team of three consultants from the UK – Mr Mehmet Manisali, Ms Sarah Osbourne and Mr Jahrad Haq – representing maxillofacial and oculoplastic surgery, assessed a total of 71 patients, as well as operating on 15 during their stay in Vietnam. Facing the World explains that the mission focused on the delivery and teaching of complex orbital and facial bone surgery for patients with severe congenital facial deformities and post-trauma reconstruction.

The charity highlights that, in conjunction with the Vietnamese team they were training, the UK surgeons performed five orbital reconstructions, including the preparation of sockets for eye prostheses, unblockage of tear drainage system and management of a young children with acute orbital trauma (white-eye blow out fracture). Facing the World is raising money to fund these missions to Vietnam. Show your support and help our chosen charity by donating today.

To donate to this special charity scan the QR Code using the camera on your phone or visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aestheticsmedia