Vietnamese and US doctors are joining in a humanitarian orthopedic surgery program in Hanoi with a view to assisting less privileged children with deformities.

The program is being carried out by one Vietnamese and four US doctors from March 5 to 19 at the Hong Ngoc General Hospital.

Doctors will give check-ups to and design treatment plans for children with head, hand, arm and chest deformities or cleft lip and palate. Eligible patients will receive surgeries.

Vietnamese and US doctors will give check-ups to and design treatment plans for children. (Photo: vietnamnet.vn)

On the Vietnamese side, Dr. Nguyen Nguyet Nha, a former deputy head of the craniofacial department of the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics, is in charge of the program.

The doctor has worked with many foreign physicians in similar orthopedic surgery programs in Vietnam such as Operation Smile, the Netherlands’ Interplast, and the Republic of Korea’s Globe Care.

There are about 1.3 million children with deformities in Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs’ Department of Child Care and Protection. Non-governmental organizations, along with domestic and foreign experts have carried out a number of free surgery programs targeting children with cleft lip and palate, which are the most common deformities in the country.

Source: VNA