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Yarim Cleft Camp, February 2010
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The Yarim cleft lip and palate camp sponsored
by the Smile Train and Yemen Smile was held at Yarim government
hospital from Wednesday the 17th of February till
Sunday the 28th of Feb. A nationwide announcement was
made by the Government of Yemen through the local Govt newspapers,
television and radio.
The Republican newspaper office and television
crew visited the Smile operation programme at Yarim hospital on the
first day of the camp. Yarim govt hospital is a World Bank funded
project that helps poor Yemeni patients from across the entire
country and has up to date facilities with two well equipped
operation theatres and well trained ICU staff.
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Patients attended the camp from the regions of
Taiz, Ibb, Yarim, Dhamar, Hodeidah,Sana’a and other regions of
Yemen. Over 55 patients were screened over a period of one week and
a total number of 50 cleft lip and palate patients and a patient
with lip and nose injury received free surgeries.
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Some of the previously operated cleft palate cases needed
tertiary level care and could not be accommodated in this camp; a
few cleft patients had respiratory tract infections and their
surgeries were postponed.
The local government authorities of Yarim
extended their full support for the smile programmes and requested
the cleft team to continue such free services in Yarim for the
benefit of all Yemeni cleft patients.
The anesthesia and nursing team of the hospital included ICU
anesthesia doctors Mohamed Shari, Mohd Obasi, Mohd Taha, Mohd, Fuad,
Jameela, Wahed and others. The OT had an adjoining ICU with
defibrillator and monitoring systems which were in excellent
working condition.
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The local Yemeni team did an outstanding job in
taking care of the patients in the theatre, monitoring post op
patients and follow up care in the wards and opds. The local smile
team worked long hours everyday from 6.30 am till 6.30pm .A portable
USB pulse oxygen monitor was donated by the charity to the team for
post op care.
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A local Govt hospital ENT lecturer along with a
few local dentists attended the training sessions on 2010 newer and
improved cleft surgery methods. All the patients did well post op and were
followed up by the hospital team.
This was the third Smile Train and Yemen Smile
cleft camp for the nation of Yemen through Yarim hospital. The earlier
two smile camps were held a month earlier at Jibla and Karama Taiz.
Dr.Ashish Sabharwal, Manager of Smile Train programmes for South Asia
contacted the smile team to encourage more smiles for the nation of
Yemen through Yarim hospital and assured the team of all necessary
logistical support to achieve this vision of smiles for Yemen .The
next camp will be held after a few dozen patients are registered
within the next 6-7 weeks.
Special thanks to the US Embassy Sana’a leaders
Ambassador Stephen Seche , Susan Canning and US embassy staff for
helping the charity to meet some of the major expenses for the
marathon camp through their fund raising event, “An Occasion to Smile-
in aid of Yemen Smile” at the US Embassy Residence a few months ago.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP
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Yemen Smile relies
entirely on donations to carry on its work.
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