Mission Reports

Peru:

Lima - May 20 to May 30, 2009

An Operation Smile team of volunteers will provide life-changing cleft lip and cleft palate surgery for the children of Lima, Peru. The team consists of more than 45 medical and non-medical volunteers, including Plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a pediatrician, a dentist, speech therapist, child life therapist and others. These volunteers from Canada, Italy, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, and the United States, will work alongside their Peruvian counterparts at Hospital Daniel A. Carrión to provide free physical examinations and reconstructive surgeries for children and young adults with facial deformities.

Operation Smile medical volunteers have provided more than 4,000 Peruvian children and young adults with free physical examinations and more than 2,000 have received life-changing surgery during international medical missions.

First international mission: 1999
International mission sites: Arequipa, Lima, Salaverry, and Trujillo
Local mission sites: Arequipa, Iquitos and Trujillo

Lima - May 22 to May 31, 2008

An international team of 50 medical and non-medical Operation Smile volunteers worked in Lima to change the lives of children from throughout Peru who were suffering with facial deformities.

Plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a pediatrician, a dentist, speech therapist, child life therapist and others worked together at Hospital Daniel A. Carrión, providing 328 free physical examinations and treating 107 patients with reconstructive surgeries. The Operation Smile international mission team included volunteers from Canada, Colombia, Italy, Nicaragua, and the United States, who worked side-by-side with local Peruvian medical volunteers.

This was Operation Smile's 9th mission to Lima and the 13th medical mission to Peru. Operation Smile medical volunteers have provided more than 4,000 Peruvian children and young adults with free physical examinations and more than 2,000 have received life-changing surgery during international medical missions. To read about the 2,000th child to be treated in Peru by Operation Smile and local Peruvian medical professionals, click here.

First international mission: 1999
International mission sites: Arequipa, Lima, Salaverry, Trujillo
Local mission sites: Arequipa, Iquitos, Trujillo

Lima - May 24 to June 1, 2007

An Operation Smile international team of more than 40 medical and non-medical volunteers in Lima provided 347 free medical evaluations and surgery to 136 children born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. The Operation Smile team consisted of volunteers from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa and the United States who provided patients with life-changing surgeries. The team included plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a pediatric intensivist, dentist, speech therapist and others who worked together at Hospital Daniel A. Carrion De Callao.

Since Operation Smile began its medical program in Peru in 1999, more than 1,000 children and young adults have been surgically treated and nearly 3,000 have received free medical evaluations during international medical missions.

First international mission: 1999

International mission sites: Lima, Trujillo

Lima - May 18 to May 26, 2006

An international team of more than 40 Operation Smile medical and non-medical volunteers from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the United States and Venezuela worked with a Peruvian medical team at Hospital Daniel A. Carrion De Callao. Plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a dentist, speech pathologist, child life therapist and others provided free medical evaluations and reconstructive surgery to children and young adults suffering from cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. The team worked tirelessly to provide medical evaluations to 325 patients and 111 surgeries were performed, giving these children new smiles and new hope.

First international mission: 1999
International mission sites: Lima, Trujillo

Lima - May 10 to May 20, 2005

Nearly 50 medical and non-medical Operation Smile volunteers from Bermuda, Colombia, the Philippines, United Kingdom and the United States worked with the Peruvian medical team at Hospital Daniel A. Carrion De Callao. Plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a dentist, speech pathologist, child life therapist and others provided children and young adults suffering from cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities with free medical evaluations and surgery. During the mission, the medical team was able to give medical evaluations to 267 children and operate on 137 patients who now have the chance at a normal life.

This mission marked Operation Smile's seventh international surgical mission to Peru. Since Operation Smile's first mission to Peru in 1999, nearly 900 children and young adults in Lima have been surgically treated and more than 2,500 have received free medical evaluations during international missions.

First international mission: 1999
International mission sites: Lima, Trujillo

Lima - May 13 to May 23, 2004

An Operation Smile team of 44 international volunteer medical professionals was in Lima, Peru from May 13-23, 2004, and provided free reconstructive surgery to 125 children and young adults who suffered from cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

Volunteers from the United States, Panama and Canada worked with the Peruvian medical team at Hospital Daniel A. Carrion De Callao. The team evaluated 439 patients and performed 150 surgical procedures on 125 patients.

This mission marked Operation Smile's sixth international surgical mission to Peru. Since Operation Smile's first mission to Peru in 1999, 760 children and young adults in Lima have been surgically treated and 2,247 have received free medical evaluations.

Trujillo - May 7 to May 21, 2003

An Operation Smile team of international volunteer medical professionals was in Trujillo, Peru, May 7 - 21, 2003, to provide free reconstructive surgery to children with facial deformities.

Approximately 40 volunteer team members, including plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pediatricians, dentists and speech therapists, cared for children who suffer from cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

Volunteers from Canada, Colombia, Peru and the United States worked at Hospital Regional Docente de Trujillo (Trujillo Regional Hospital). Since Operation Smile's first mission to Peru in 1999, 635 children and young adults in Lima have been surgically treated and 1,808 have received free medical evaluations. This was the first time Operation Smile conducted a mission in Trujillo. The site was chosen in order to serve the children in the northern part of the country.

President Alejandro Toledo offered the use of the presidential plane to fly the team from Lima to Trujillo. First Lady Eliane Karp de Toledo joined the team for the mission.

MISSION STATISTICS
First Mission: 1999
Patients Treated: 635
Mission Sites: Lima, Trujillo
Next Mission: 2004

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