OPERATION SMILE CELEBRATES OVER 100 SURGERIES ON WORLD SMILE DAY

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4 October 2019

DOM_2015_2009_105_Hilis_After_012 1.tif_NetPublish_Converted — DOM_2015_2009_105_Hilis_After_ 105 Hilis Germanyony Maldonado Santos, female 6 years old Fistula repair, CP. Child. A 2009 patient. Operation Smile Mission at the Hospital Pediatrico Hugo Mendoza, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. March 4 to March 14 2015. (Operation Smile – Photo Marc Ascher)

This World Smile Day, Friday, 04 October, Operation Smile South Africa (OSSA) is celebrating performing over 100 free cleft lip/palate surgeries for children and adults across Southern Africa in 2019.

With a team of 120 active medical volunteers in South Africa, and 350 non-medical trainees and healthcare workers, OSSA would have completed three missions this year in Mozambique and Witbank.

The global non-profit medical service organisation provides free cleft lip and cleft palate reconstructive surgery in as little as 45 minutes.

Those requiring assistance with receiving reconstructive surgery to correct a cleft lip and/or palate, can visit the Operation Smile South Africa website, connect on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, call tollfree on 0800 0 76453.

Watch Enok’s story to see how Operation Smile helped change his life forever:

Liesl Smit

Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm