Eighty-three children with cleft lip and palate in the Tay Nguyen Central Highlands will receive free health check-ups and surgeries as part of the Operation Smile Vietnam programme.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha visited and presented gifts to children who are receiving treatment for cleft lip, cleft palate and odontogenic cysts on April 17.
The Children’s Fund in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on July 23 coordinated with the Operation Smile Vietnam to provide free examination and surgery for 140 needy people who suffer from cleft lip and cleft palate.
Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in collaboration with Operation Smile Vietnam launched the eponymous orthopaedic surgery programme on October 18 to help children with congenital hare-lip in the northern region.
Starting the new school year, fourth-graders from the Hanoi Academy primary school had a chance to join in some very interesting and meaningful activities.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and representatives from the Vietnam Children Sponsor Fund (VCSF) on June 15 presented gifts to families of children with disabilities.
As many as 80 children with cleft lips and palates receive free surgeries under a programme taking place in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from August 24 to 28.
The oil and gas company Exxon Mobil Vietnam on August 21 donated 75,000
USD to Operation Smile Vietnam to provide free surgeries on cleft lip
and cleft palate of about 300 children across the country.
The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in Hanoi and Operation Smile
Vietnam organisation will give free medical checks and surgery to
children suffer from cleft lips and cleft palates from April 15-18.
Operation Smile Vietnam is offering free surgery for children with
facial deformities in southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau and neighbouring
provinces from July 29 – August 2.
Operation Smile Vietnam will extend their free surgery program to
An Giang province from April 8-12 to offer life-changing surgeries to
children suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates in the Mekong Delta
region.
A 12-member delegation from the Operation Smile programme of Australia
will visit Vietnam in late this month to explore the country’s
activities in the field.
Eighty poor patients with facial deformities, who are ethnic minority
people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong , received
free-of-charge operations during a humanitarian programme from June
21-24.
The Ambassador of Operation Smile
Vietnam , Andrew Keating, has been awarded Vietnam ’s “For Peace and
Friendship among Nations” insignia for his great contributions to
charitable activities in the country.
The largest free programme in the
20-year history of Operation Smile Vietnam is expected to bring smiles
to the faces of 2,000 Vietnamese underprivileged and disadvantaged
children until Nov. 14.
