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Volume 3 | No. 05 | Cagayan de Oro City | September 5-11, 2015
Australian physicians in Oro for outreach program A
By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff Writer
N eight-person medical team from Interplast Australia once again trooped to Cagayan de Oro for ten days last August to hold surgeries for cleft palate reconstruction and realignment. Now on its 17th year, the Put a Smile project of Interplast Australia has netted a total of 77 beneficiaries who have cleft palate deformities, some coming from as far as Visayas. Persons who have these deformities usually suffer from low self-esteem and difficulty in social interactions with others.
“We have patients coming from Boracay, North Cotabato and Zamboanga,” reported Mar Paano, the chair of the Put a Smile leg in Cagayan de Oro this year. Interplast Australia is a not-for-profit organization working to improve the quality of life for people with disability as a result of congenital or acquired
medical conditions such as cleft lip palate or burn scar contractures. They do this by sending fully qualified Australian and New Zealand volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anesthetists and allied health professionals elsewhere in Asia Pacific to provide free surgical treatment for patients who could otherwise not be able to afford access to such services. Here in Cagayan de Oro, they’ve been hosted since 1998 by the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro. According to Carlos Gorospe who initiated the program that year,
he was moved to build a partnership with Interplast Australia because of the sheer number of children in Mindanao who are affected with cleft lip
palates. It is the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro which coordinates the entire program, helps the visitors identify and screen beneficiaries, provides
security and in-land transportation and their other needs. For this year, Interplast Australia sent in two surgeons, three outreach/PAGE 11
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Interplast Australia & New Zealand doctors making their final rounds before leaving for Australia. photo courtesy of rotary club of cagayan de oro
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