Hundreds attend assessment for free surgeries

Specialists in several universities in United States held yesterday along with the medical staff of the hospital father Billini, evaluations of about 300 patients, mostly children and adolescents, which will undergo different surgeries to correct deformities such as cleft lip, cleft palate, contractions by Burns, skin grafts, tumours of the skin and reconstruction of ears (pinna), among other specialties.

Ciar is hoping to benefit of this medical day free, unique in its kind in the country, since last Saturday night hundreds of poor families from different cities and remote areas, woke up in the open, with blankets and bedsheets to harbour their affected children.

"I came of Neyba and came here at 12: 00 in the evening, because I want that doctors will fix the lips cut my daughter," said Matilda Medrano, a humble woman who lives in the hills of Panso, near Villa u000aJaragua.

Like her, more than a thousand people gathered in front of father Billini, one of the oldest hospitals in the capital and it was remodeled and modernized just last a week, looking for some solution to health problems in their children.

"It is my only hope, I could not afford the reconstruction of the ear and the skin of the head of my son," said Yanilda Garcia, mother of Jesús García Ramírez, an adolesente who lost the left ear and part of the skin of the skull in a car accident with sad face.

while Geraldino e. Matos, affected by a neurofi congenital bromatosis that has deformed it the face and head, said that doctors promised last year that could be operated this time to improve its appearance.

"Is hard to live like this, with a disease that you will gradually deforming, but thank God that there are these medical humanist and generous".

Start today
surgeries u000ain this twentieth day Dominico-Americana of plastic surgery and Reconstructive, father Billini, beginning from the early hours of today Monday until the 17th of this month of February, period in which it will be intercepted some 250 people, reported Dr. Miguel Cotes, President of the Fundación Renacer Dominican.

American specialists, led by Dr. Tom Geraldy, belong to universities in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Chicago and California, while the Dominican team is coordinated by Cotes, President of revival, and the doctors Brünnhilde Pichardo and Emilio Jiménez.

The day is done for 28 years in the country with the coloboración of Peace Corps volunteers, but in father Billini, with the support of the Mercedaries sisters, carrying 102 years of service at the hospital, and the Renacer Foundation, they are inciaron 20 years.

At that time have made 8 thousand surgeries (4 thousand patients with) u000a(cracks) and, in addition, 20,000 people have been treated clinically by specialists in reconstruction of palate cleft in lower cirigías. Hundreds of surgeries have been carried out by deformity of fingers or toes, contractures of hands and feet, Contracture by Burns and skin, including grafts.

During the day can only be between 250 and 260 surgeries for reasons of time and personnel, despite the fact that was attended by over a thousand people with congenital malformations, Burns, and other disorders acquired by trauma which produce some deformity in the body, the face or extremities.

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Many evaluated QUEDARÁN EARRINGS
many were evaluated and their cases remained pending for the next day, and others that can be addressed with minor surgeries will be referred to other centers of the State. The year the day was held at Dario Contreras hospital, due to which father Billini, headquarters of this activity u000aSince 1992, was being remodeled.

The crowd agglomerated in the Santomé Street, the colonial city, to the hospital, forcing the Metropolitan Authority (Amet) transport authorities diverted traffic, while a specialized national army equipment, ensured order and the security of the place.

Patients were received by the specialists who evaluated each case and were then submitted to consultation in the second level in groups on the first floor. There was determined who would go or not in today to the operating room. The doctor Cotes said that for that reason many expected in order and patiently in a row that reached the street and lementó in the hospital there was no space to accommodate all patients.

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