PANO – The Operation Smile Vietnam (OSV) in association with the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and Vietnam and the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital will provide free medical check-ups and surgeries for children born with facial deformities from May 9th to 13th in Hanoi.

Operation Smile providing free medical check-ups and surgeries in An Giang province. Source: tuoitre.vn

As schedule, the program will provide screen and medical test for nearly 100 patients on May 9th and process to take surgeries on 4 days from May 10th at the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital.

The program has funded by MobiFone for seven years, bringing new smiles for underprivileged Vietnamese children and helping their life brighter.

Over the past 27 years, the program proivided safe surgeries for over 39,000 unlucky children nationwide. However, as there are about 3,000 children born with cleft lip and/or palate every year, there are still so many children who need our help.

Earlier, in April 2016, OSV successfully provided more than 200 children suffering from cleft lips and/or cleft palates from northern and central provinces of Vietnam.

Translated by Chung Anh