Anantapur: FCN to provide surgery to 75 cleft lip patients
The camp is being hosted by Santhiram Medical College and General Hospital Nandyal.
Anantapur: At least 75 children and adults are undergoing Cleft lip and Cleft palate surgeries held by Dr Geetha and Tom Chitta of Foundation for Children in Need (FCN), a non-profit organisation coordinated free camp at Nandyal in Kurnool district.
The Smile Network International (SNI), Mineapolis, MN, USA, headed by Dr Bob Friendhoff and Dr Uldis Bite of Mayo Clinic In hospital, Rochester, USA, arrived to attend the five-day camp.
The camp is being hosted by Santhiram Medical College and General Hospital Nandyal.
Dr Thomas Reddy said the FCN was initiated to organise some of the best surgeries in the world with SNI. The surgeries were done free of cost through the SNI and their medical team of 25 volunteers.
The Santhiram Hospital provided accommodation and operation theatres for the patients and also to their parents for a stay.
"We are conducting surgeries for 75 children and adults from both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states during the five-day session", Mr Thomas Reddy told this correspondent. The five-day session would be concluded on Friday.
More than 200 persons, mostly children with cleft lip were treated since one year by Dr Geetha and Tom Chitta of FCN, Mr Thomas Reddy said and added surgeries would be conducted in another phase.