Mukalla Camp, 10 – 13 January 2009

The Mukalla smile camp was held at the Ibn Sina hospital from the 10^th to the 13^th of January.  Nineteen patients were screened for cleft and other complicated facial deformities over a three day period and seven were successfully operated.
 

Two weeks earlier, ten other plastic surgery patients were seen at two hospitals in Sana city and some were scheduled for surgery later in the month.

A local hospital in the city of Taiz had also registered over ten cleft and facial deformity patients for the charity to help them in the month of February.
 

A few Yemeni specialist surgeons attended the training camp and were taught the methods of facial reconstruction.

Many of the patients had travelled long distances from their villages for the consultations; however, the hospital did not have adequate operation rooms to accommodate all the 19 patients and the ones on the waiting list were asked to return for surgery in six months.
 

As a result of the economic downturn in most Yemeni towns and villages, many Yemeni cleft and plastic surgery patients continue to wait long periods before they can even hope to get their deformities corrected by visiting expat plastic surgeons.

The waiting list of cleft and other patients now stands at over forty at various Smile cell units across Taiz, Sana and Mukalla.

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