Over 40 New Smiles in Nanjing
The Nanjing, China mission came to an end on Monday with the team screening a total of 102 children and completing 42 operations over the weekend. The local team will continue to treat children who were screened during the mission on a weekly basis as part of the medical center that was established by Operation Smile China Medical Mission within the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in 2001. Over 1,800 children have been treated at the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital since it’s partnership with Operation Smile in 1996.
On Monday the educational spirit and initiatives of Operation Smile were the main focus. The international team met with Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital President, Dr. Ding Yitao, where he expressed his appreciation for their involvement in the medical mission. Qi Xiaomin of the foreign affairs office, showed the international team the museum of the hospital. Dr. Jeff Marcus and Dr. Detlev Erdmann of Duke University gave lectures at the plastic surgery department sharing their research with the local Nanjing team.
The international team and local team members celebrated the end to a successful mission with a banquet dinner where we were able to try many of Nanjing’s specialty dishes.
- Clara Love, Operation Smile volunteer
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Enjoyed this meaningful mission.
We are adopting from Jiangsu Province. Our little one was born with bilateral cl/cp. We were told she along with 7 other children from her orphanage had lip repaired in early Nov. I have a post op photo from the CCAA dated 11-27-07. She has transformed so much. What an incrediable job. I would like to find out if your team is the one who did her surgery. We are so thankful and would like to sponsor the organization who provided a beautiful new smile to our little Gabby. Please let me know how to go about finding out. Another adoptive mom indicated a US team did the work. Either way, the work you are doing is wonderful and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.