When one thinks about Southern California plastic surgeons, huge bills, smaller noses and thinner thighs may come to mind. Now picture this: a doctor traveling thousands of miles to treat a young boy whose mother abandoned him because of a facial deformity.
Meet Dr. Bruce Ascough of Verdugo Hills Hospital, a plastic surgeon who, for almost 30 years has journeyed to La Piedad, Mexico three times a year with Interface, a large medical volunteer team, according to a news release from the hospital. The group performs 60-80 operations in two days — mainly cleft palates, cleft lips, and other deformities. La Piedad is a town of roughly 100,000 people, located in the northwest state of Michoacán.
On his most recent trip, Ascough operated on a boy whose father, a field worker, feed the child with an eyedropper as they traveled over 10 hours to reach the medical help.
“Here in California, we rarely see patients with cleft palates who have no way of receiving medical attention,” Ascough said in a prepared statement. “It is a huge benefit to the children in Mexico who are unable to get surgical care, and it gives us a chance to give something back.”
Cleft lips and palates are variations of a type of clefting congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during gestation, according to the new release. Cleft may cause problems with feeding, ear disease, speech and socialization.
Ascough has been with VHH since 1994. he received his medical education at the University of Kansas Medical Center and completed his training in Houston.
Plastic surgery is also considered to be a sort of rehabilitative and rectification operation. It is legendary that Plastic surgery Costa Rica are offering some of the best medicine for the rectification and restoration of a certain part of the human face and torso of the patient as well as cleft palates, developmental irregularities, facial bone breaks and faults, inflammation and disease, burn treatment and hand surgical procedure. Plastic surgery consists of the use of the skin coming from the patients fleshy sections of the torso; like those anywhere from around the area of the arms, thighs or the buttocks.
If the patients flesh unable to be used for his or her plastic surgery, then the flesh from a donor should be used for the patients surgical procedure. the donated flesh could come from a individual, or semisynthetic compounds. As long as the plastic surgery medical treatment is right and skillfully done, with the right incisions, sutures, and fit of the new skin so that it would look natural rather than a renovation or reconstruction, and by transferring tissues to the flesh that is being handled and the blood vessels reconnecting, then your surgical procedure would definitely be a success. and the person that was handled from a great surgical procedure would definitely feel contented, glad and more confident with themselves after the surgery, especially if the person was handled for Plastic surgery Costa Rica.
Plastic surgeries aren’t only for patients who would like to look youthful, prettier, sexier, and definitely feel more confident. Plastic surgeries are also done for rectification and health condition causes as well as tumor removal, ear renovation for many who was / were born without an ear, nose surgical procedure for the patients who has trouble respiring instead of just wanting to have a perfect-shaped olfactory organ. Breast decrease for patients with large boobs that have some trouble along with their move also to alleviate irritating physical problems, and breasts renovation for many who has / have an uneven diameter of their breast or after a mastectomy.
Some Plastic Surgery Costa Rica that is being offered are also from those congenital disorder like hand deformities and harelip and craniofacial anomalies. This form of faults could be handled even should the patient is still in their teenagers or adulthood. It is necessary that the renovation or rectification of a certain defects must be handled earlier, particularly if it is handicaping the patients daily living and if it is a lot more serious than they thought it may be.
The patients really have much of plastic surgery treatments that they could select from. Costa Rica is such as a one-stop health related tourist place for those individuals who planned to appear really good about themselves.
A total of about 1200 patients were screened and 92 major operations were carried by the club’s team of doctors.
Amongst the operations carried out, Dr. Anil Tibrewala, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon from Mumbai, carried out 48 major operations.
These included children with cleft lips and cleft palates, patients with extensive burns and post burns contractures, post traumatic deformities and large growths on various aspects of the body.
It was indeed heartening to see the smiles on these patients once their problems had been solved and they could go back home and live a normal healthy life.
Dr. Tibrewala has, for the last 15 years, given his time, expertise and knowledge to the poor and needy of our province and the Lions Club of Mombasa Bahari is indebted to him for helping the club alleviate the problems of these unfortunate patients.
It is amazing as to how, year after year, patients wait for him to come to Malindi so that they can be treated.
It is well known that people in the rural areas have many medical problems and yet they do not seek medical care and advice because they just cannot afford it.
Seeing these patients making an effort to come to the camp and seek medical help certainly makes one wonder as to why we cannot get together and provide expertise and help more frequently.
The club is very appreciative of Dr. Hatim Yusufali, a young and dynamic Consultant Eye Surgeon, who came and helped over 300 patients with various Eye ailments.
He successfully carried out 16 Cataract Surgeries during the camp.
The Medical committee of the club is very lucky to have as its members, doctors with diverse specialties.
This helps the club to treat patients with all types of conditions without any hitch.
Lion Dr. Mala Nyun, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, was really sought after by the large number of women who came to the camp.
She carried out five Hysterectomies and two Caesarian Sections during the camp.
Considering the fact that Health workers in all public hospitals were on strike and patients were being turned away from the hospitals, it was a wonderful feeling that we, as a club, could hellp deliver and thus save the lives of two new born babies who otherwise might not have survived.
As is the norm with every camp, hundreds of very poor patients with various surgical problems present themselves so that they can have their problems sorted out.
Though the hospital staff were on strike, Dr. Buni, Consultant Surgeon and Medical Superintendent of Malindi District Hospital, joined hands with us and carried out 21 operations.
Having carried out operative medical camps in the entire province for over 15 years, the Lions Club of Mombasa Bahari has been able to put together an entire mobile unit for such projects.
The club, besides having very dedicated members, is also privileged to have a very active team of doctors who are always ready to serve the community when called upon.
This has helped the club in carrying out medical camps all over our very vast province.
All camps carried out by the club are entirely free of cost and besides treating the patients in the public hospitals, even their food and welfare are looked after by the club.
Whilst the Medical Camp was in progress, the club’s Breast Cancer Awareness Committee conducted a series of lectures and demonstrations for the ladies.
On Friday afternoon, nearly 300 ladies from all walks of life assembled at Cleopatra Cinema to learn about Breast Cancer from Lion Dr. Mala and her team.
The ladies were so concerned that on Saturday 10th March, 85 ladies came to Taufiq Hospital, Malindi, where free Breast examinations were carried by the club.
Those who needed further advice were referred to Mombasa for more extensive investigations. Lions International District 411A District Governor Lion Murtaza Dungarwala witnessed the camp and the breast awareness activity on Friday 9th March 2012 and was full of praise for these activities.
The Lions Club of Mombasa Bahari is very grateful to Freight Forwarders Kenya Ltd. and Mabati Rolling Mills for their very generous sponsorship of this camp.
These included hernia repairs, hydrocoelectomies, stab wounds and excision of large lipomas.
He leads a medical team in Nepal that treats children who are disfigured by cleft palates, or who have suffered burn injuries, typically by falling into a cooking fire.
“Almost all of these patients are very poor,” Rai said. “There is no way they afford the service.”
Webber has been helping the medical team financially for years as they provide surgical services free of charge. “I have a rug factory in Kathmandu, Nepal,” Webber said. “I wanted to give something back to what’s a really wonderful country.”
Now, his dream hospital is taking shape and is expected to be ready to accept patients next spring. the new building is four stories high. it will have five operating rooms, 65 beds and a staff of 200, including about 20 doctors.
Children in Asia are about twice as likely as white American children to be born with cleft palates. Many charitable organizations provide surgical services in poorer countries, but typically it’s done in portable, temporary facilities. Webber’s goal is to make the Nepal Cleft and Burn Center a teaching hospital and a permanent facility for the kind of plastic surgery that can alter many lives in poor countries.
Webber began raising funds in 2006, hoping to persuade other rug importers to join his crusade. “It’s been very disappointing,” Webber said. “With the economic turn down, the rug business has not been good. and basically all my initial supporters who I recruited to start this project have dropped out.”
But Webber pressed on, seeking financial grants and individual contributions. He’s raised about $500,000 so far, mostly from Utah sources.
He said he’s “getting a lot of bang for the buck” because of his arrangement with Globus Relief.
Globus Relief provides medical supplies and equipment, $100 million worth this year, to charities serving more than 100 countries. the equipment has typically been used previously by health care facilities which then either donate or sell it to Globus Relief at bargain prices.
“We can pick up used equipment,” Webber said, “for pennies on the dollar.”
Douglas Beck, director of operations for Globus Relief, pointed to a surgical table that’s headed for Nepal. “This was a donated item. So we don’t charge (Webber) for those particular items. We will then go through a reconditioning process where we’ll completely take the table apart, do a cosmetic as well as a mechanical reconditioning.”
E-mail: hollenhorst@desnews.com
<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705393797/Utah-businessman-building-surgical-clinic-in-Nepal.htmltag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705393797/Utah-businessman-building-surgical-clinic-in-Nepal.htmlSat, 05 Nov 2011 05:52:03 GMT”>Utah businessman building surgical clinic in Nepal
